US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 1 for "Gas turbine engines and methods for reducing spool thrust in a turbine section thereof" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,173, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Gas turbine engines and methods for reducing spool thrust in a turbine section thereof" was invented by Eric Bridges (Phoenix), Mark Morris (Phoenix), Joseph Yanof (Phoenix), Partha Das (Phoenix), John McClintic (Phoenix), Steven Whitaker (Phoenix) and Jason Smoke (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gas turbine engines and methods for reducing spool thrust in a turbine section thereof are provided. The engines include a turbine disk, a shaft coupled to the turbine disk, an inner cavity downstream of the turbine disk, a thrust bearing assembly m...