US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 23 for "Aeronautical propulsion system having electric fans" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,219, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aeronautical propulsion system having electric fans" was invented by Kurt David Murrow (Springboro, Ohio), Darek Tomasz Zatorski (Fort Wright, Ky.) and Matthew Timothy Franer (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft defining a vertical direction, a longitudinal direction, and a transverse direction is provided. The aircraft includes: a fuselage; a propulsion system comprising a power source and a plurality of vertical thrust electric fans driven by the power source; and a wing extending from the fuselage in the transverse direction. The wing...