US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 21 for "Gas turbine engine" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,131, issued on July 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine" was invented by Daniel John Oehrle (West Chester, Ohio), Randy M. Vondrell (Newport, Ky.), David Justin Brady (Rockport, Mass.), Michael Joseph Murray (Wyoming, Ohio), Thomas Bradley Kenney (Lynn, Mass.), Victor Moreno Patan (Queretaro, Mexico) and William James Mailander (Lynn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes an unducted primary fan, a core engine including a combustor casing enclosing a combustor and defining an outer surface, a core cowl surrounding the core engine. A fuel system provides fuel to t...