US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 17 for "Compliant shroud designs with variable stiffness" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,882, issued on March 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Compliant shroud designs with variable stiffness" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Praveen Sharma (Bengaluru, India), Jeffrey D. Carnes (Framingham, Mass.) and Herbert Chidsey Roberts (Middletown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. A shroud assembly of a gas turbine engine includes: a first shroud arm having a first end and a second end, the first end to couple to an outer wall and the second end to couple to a first shroud pad, and a second shroud arm ha...