ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,509, issued on July 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.) and General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Power transfer system for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari (Bengaluru, India), Suma Mn (Bengaluru, India), Mohamed Osama (Garching, Germany) and Kevin Michael Do (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine having a first pressure spool and a second pressure spool includes a power transfer system to transfer mechanical power between the first pressure spool and the second pressure spool. The first pressure spool can include a first e...