US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 20 for "Variable diameter thrust link apparatus" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,323, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Variable diameter thrust link apparatus" was invented by Ryan T. Roehm (Evendale, Ohio), Brandon W. Miller (Evendale, Ohio), Robert Eugene Dyson (West Chester, Ohio), Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Donald S. Yeager (West Chester, Ohio) and John C. Schilling (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Variable diameter thrust link apparatus are disclosed. A thrust link for an aircraft engine includes a forward end coupled to the aircraft engine, the forward end having a first diameter, and an aft end coupled to the aircraft engine or a pylon, the a...