US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 3 for "Active clearance control valves and related methods" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,558, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evandale, Ohio).

"Active clearance control valves and related methods" was invented by Taehong Kim (Evendale, Ohio) and Timothy L. Schelfaut (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Active clearance control valves and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a pipe defining a flow path between (i) at least one of a fan section, a bypass airflow passage, or a compressor section and (ii) a turbine section of the gas turbine, the pipe including an inlet fluidly coupled to at least one of the fan section, the bypass airflow passage, or the compressor se...