US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 21 for "Monolithic superstructure for gas turbine engines" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,128, issued on July 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Monolithic superstructure for gas turbine engines" was invented by Joshua Tyler Mook (Cincinnati), John Alan Manteiga (Lynn, Mass.) and Christopher Williams (Hamilton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to monolithic superstructures for supporting a rotating shaft coupled to a rotor relative to a stator. An integral superstructure supports the rotating component. The superstructure includes a bearing portion that contacts the shaft. A stator portion, is spaced a critical dimension radially outward, from the rot...