US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 23 for "Turbine engine having an engine core and a bleed air conduit" (Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,968, issued on June 23, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine having an engine core and a bleed air conduit" was invented by Cesar Antonio Labastida Ponce (Queretaro, Mexico) and Apolinario Barra Ruiz (Queretaro, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine has an engine core, a fan section, a bleed air conduit, and a drain assembly. The engine core has a compressor section, combustor section, and turbine section in serial flow arrangement and defining a stator, rotor, and a fire zone. The fan section is rotationally coupled to the rotor. The bleed air conduit is fluidly coupled to at least ...