ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,474, issued on July 14, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method of operating a lubrication system for a turbine engine" was invented by Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.) and Andrew Hudecki (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a lubrication system for a turbine engine having a fan and one or more rotating components. The lubrication system includes a primary lubrication system and an auxiliary lubrication system. The method includes supplying lubricant to the one or more rotating components from the primary lubrication system during a norm...