US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Oct. 14 for "Method of mitigating rotor bow in a turbine engine rotor" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,303, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method of mitigating rotor bow in a turbine engine rotor" was invented by Christian M. Fernholz (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Clay Sven Norrbin (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mitigating rotor bow in a rotor of a turbine engine. The method includes determining thermal rotor bow in the rotor, determining non-thermal rotor unbalance in the rotor by monitoring the response at the bowed rotor mode of the rotor, and determining a time period for motoring the rotor prior to operation of turbine engine, wherein the time peri...