US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 5 for "Methods and apparatus to provide cross-diffuser bleed" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,362, issued on May 5, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods and apparatus to provide cross-diffuser bleed" was invented by Edward James Walton (Scituate, Mass.), Keith W. Wilkinson (Portsmouth, N.H.), Michael Macrorie (Charlestown, Mass.), Caitlin Jeanne Smythe Almeida (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael T. Hogan (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Elizabeth Bennett (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to provide for cross-diffuser bleed are provided herein. An example gas turbine engine includes a frame defining a cavity in a forward side of a diffuser of the gas ...