US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTIC on July 14 for "Squeeze film damper assembly for a turbine engine" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,470, issued on July 14, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Squeeze film damper assembly for a turbine engine" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Dinesh Rakwal (Bengaluru, India), Bugra H. Ertas (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Surender Reddy Bhavanam (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A squeeze film damper assembly for a turbine engine includes an annular bearing support and an annular damper housing. The annular bearing support includes an inner support segment and an outer support segment located radially outward of the inner support segment. The inner support segment and the out...