US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 16 for "Pitch change mechanism for a fan of a gas turbine engine" (Indian, American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,902, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Pitch change mechanism for a fan of a gas turbine engine" was invented by Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav (Karad, India), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Nitesh Jain (Bengaluru, India) and Ricardo Hernandez Pandeli (Queretaro, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine including: a turbomachine having 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 rotatable about the fan axis; and a pitch change mechanism operable with the...