US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 14 for "Variable pitch fan of a gas turbine engine" (American, Indian, Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,271, issued on April 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Variable pitch fan of a gas turbine engine" was invented by Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav (Karad, India), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Nicholas M. Daggett (Camden, Maine), Nitesh Jain (Bengaluru, India), Matthew Mark Weaver (Loveland, Ohio) and Srinivas Addagatla (Gebze, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine comprising a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order. A fan defining a fan axis and comprising a plurality of fan blades is rotatable about the fa...