US Patent Issued to General Electric on Aug. 25 for "Compact core arrangement for high bypass ratio gas turbine engine architecture" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,381, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Compact core arrangement for high bypass ratio gas turbine engine architecture" was invented by Ramesh Balla (Bengaluru, India), Bhaskar Nanda Mondal (Bangalore, India) and Thomas O. Moniz (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures for achieving high bypass ratio in gas turbine engines are described. A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section, and an exhaust section. The compressor section includes a first booster, a second booster, and a blisk including an inclined web and offset bore. An angle...