US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Rolls-Royce on Sept. 23 for "Thermal energy system to minimize or eliminate rotor bow" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,905, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Thermal energy system to minimize or eliminate rotor bow" was invented by Govindaraj Kalyanasamy (Indianapolis) and Peter Schenk (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a thermal energy system configured to transport thermal energy harvested from a first portion of a gas turbine engine to a second portion of the gas turbine engine after the gas turbine engine was in operation, wherein the transported thermal energy minimizes or prevents undesired contact or seizin...