US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Aug. 4 for "Gas turbine engine having a hydraulic fan brake" (Ohio, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,724, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine having a hydraulic fan brake" was invented by Jeffrey D. Rambo (Mason, Ohio), Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Scott D. Hunter (Seattle) and Ryan T. Roehm (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a turbo-engine, a fan including a plurality of fan blades that rotate about a longitudinal centerline axis, a rotational component coupled to the fan, a fluid circuit for supplying a fluid to the turbine engine, and a hydraulic fan brake in fluid communication with t...