US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 17 for "Aircraft with a fuselage accommodating an unducted turbine engine" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,514, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft with a fuselage accommodating an unducted turbine engine" was invented by Keith Edward James Blodgett (Milford, Ohio), William J. Bowden (Cleves, Ohio) and Egbert Geertsema (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft comprising a fuselage and an unducted turbine engine. The fuselage having a divot with an upstream edge and a downstream edge. The divot is defined by a straight reference line having a length (L) and a maximum depth (h) relative to the straight reference line. The unducted turbine engine having an engine core, a nacelle, ...