ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,231, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"High-pressure rotor control system" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Kudum Shinde (Bengaluru, India), Weize Kang (Mason, Ohio) and Surender Reddy Bhavanam (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-pressure (HP) rotor control system includes an HP rotor and a controller. The HP rotor includes a plurality of rotor blades that rotate about a centerline axis, and a plurality of variable stator vanes (VSVs) that are rotatable about a variable stator vane (VSV) pitch axis. The plurality of VSVs are disposed at an in...