US Patent Issued on May 5 for "Trunnions having multiple fan blades for use with an aircraft engine" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,416, issued on May 5.

"Trunnions having multiple fan blades for use with an aircraft engine" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Syed Arif Khalid (West Chester, Ohio) and Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trunnions having multiple fan blades for use with an aircraft engine are disclosed herein. An example comprises a trunnion rotatable within a hub of an aircraft engine, a first fan blade coupled to the trunnion, the first fan blade having a pitch axis, and a second fan blade coupled to the trunnion, the second fan blade having a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis laterally offset fr...