US Patent Issued to General Electric on Aug. 4 for "Thermal insulation assembly" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,741, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Thermal insulation assembly" was invented by Karthick Gourishankar (Bangalore, India), Mohandas Nayak (Bangalore, India), Rejin Ratnakar (Bangalore, India) and Eric Daniel Holbrook (Vandalia, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal insulation assembly for a duct through which high temperature fluid, greater than 500 Fahrenheit, passes. The thermal insulation assembly can experience pressures less than 80 kilopascals and can be included in a turbine engine. The thermal insulation assembly includes a first foil layer confronting the duct, a second foil ...