ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,178, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods, systems, and apparatus to control a fluid provided to components in a fluid pump of a closed loop system" was invented by Mohan Kannaiah Raju (Bengaluru, India), Kudum Shinde (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Narendra Hardikar (Bengaluru, India) and Michael Joseph Murray (Wyoming, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed to provide a pressurized fluid to components of a fluid pump. An example flow control system to provide a pressurized lubricant to a secondary flow network d...