US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 17 for "Blended wing body aircraft" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,534, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Blended wing body aircraft" was invented by Mustafa Dindar (Cincinnati) and Timothy Richard DePuy (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blended wing body aircraft includes a body section having an aerodynamic lifting surface. The body section includes an upper body and a lower body. The blended wing body aircraft also includes a plurality of blended wing sections further defining the body section. The blended wing body aircraft includes one or more grooves in the body section. The one or more grooves extend from the upper body towards t...