US Patent Issued to GE AVIATION SYSTEMS on Sept. 22 for "Method and apparatus for cooling a rotor assembly" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,427, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for cooling a rotor assembly" was invented by Gurudatta Srinivasa Murthy Sirigere (Bengaluru, India), Balamurugan Sridharan (Bengaluru, India) and Sooraj Govindankutty Kocher (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor assembly includes a rotor core having a rotatable shaft and defining at least one rotor post, and a winding wound around the post that defines a set of rotor winding end turns. A support assembly for the rotor winding end turns is rotatably coupled to the rotatable shaft and defines a cavity in fl...