ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,465, issued on July 14, was assigned to GE Avio S.r.l. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy) and General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Electric machine assembly for a turbine engine" was invented by Mehdi Milani Baladi (Cincinnati) and Paul Robert Gemin (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine with a turbine core that includes a compressor section having a compressor, a combustion section, a turbine section having a high pressure turbine and a low pressure turbine, and a nozzle section. A high speed shaft couples the high pressure turbine to the compressor. A first gearbox selectively coupling an output of an electric machi...