US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 2 for "Guide vane assembly with fixed and variable pitch inlet guide vanes" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,388, issued on June 2, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Guide vane assembly with fixed and variable pitch inlet guide vanes" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Brandon Wayne Miller (Liberty Township, Ohio), Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio) and Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide vane assembly for a nacelle of a gas turbine engine includes a forward vane and an aft vane. The aft vane is located aft of the forward vane and forward of a plurality of fan blades. The forward vane defines a fixed pitch angle and the aft vane is movable between a first ...