US Patent Issued to TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION on Sept. 15 for "Additively manufactured gas turbine engine and ventilator" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,995, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Additively manufactured gas turbine engine and ventilator" was invented by Beni Cukurel (Kibbutz Nahsholim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine with a rotor comprising a turbine and compressor, mounted in a housing surrounding the rotor. The rotor rotates on one or more hydro bearings, the profiles of the outer surface of the rotor and the inner surface of the housing generating the hydro bearing(s). A combustion chamber is formed within the housing, and the combustion products of the fuel/air mixture a...