ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,427, issued on June 2, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Gas turbine engine with third stream" was invented by William Joseph Bowden (Cleves, Ohio), David Marion Ostdiek (Liberty Township, Ohio), Ian McKnight (West Chester, Ohio), Syed J. Khalid (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Brandon Wayne Miller (Liberty Township, Ohio), Randy M. Vondrell (Cincinnati), Craig William Higgins (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Alexander Kimberley Simpson (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine defining an engine inlet to an inlet duct, a fan duct inlet to a...