US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 14 for "Gas turbine engine" (Ohio, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,510, issued on July 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine" was invented by Jeffrey Donald Clements (Mason, Ohio), Daniel Alan Niergarth (Norwood, Ohio), Jeffrey S. Spruill (Hillsboro, Ohio), Erich Alois Krammer (West Chester, Ohio), Matthew Kenneth MacDonald (Austin, Texas) and Scott Alan Schimmels (Miamsburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes: a turbomachine having a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order, the compressor section having a HPC defining a HPC exit area (AHPCExit) in square inches, the turbine sect...