US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Nov. 3 for "Aircraft exhaust waste heat recovery for icing mitigation" (Mexican, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,664, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft exhaust waste heat recovery for icing mitigation" was invented by Humberto Sanchez Moreno (Queretaro, Mexico), Francisco Anaya Bravo (Queretaro, Mexico), Ana Sofia Espinosa Curiel (Queretaro, Mexico), Jeffrey D. Clements (Evendale, Ohio) and Benjamin Schumacher (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes a thermal bus with a plumbing system comprising a cold leg and a hot leg. A cryogenic fuel source containing liquid-phase hydrogen is in fluid communication with the cold leg. The plumbing system...