US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 7 for "Systems and methods for engine wear reduction" (North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,767, issued on April 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for engine wear reduction" was invented by Stefan Joseph Cafaro (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Sridhar Adibhatla (Cincinnati), William Colton Caynoski (Menands, N.Y.) and Justin Barton (North Huntingdon, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine may include a processor communicatively coupled to a pitch actuator configured to affect a pitch of a plurality of variable pitch blades and a secondary thrust effector device. The processor is configured to change the pitch of the plurality of variable pitch blades via the pitch actuator in respon...