US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 23 for "Gas turbine engine" (Ohio, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,959, issued on June 23, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine having an engine core including a high-pressure compressor, a combustion section, a high-pressure turbine, and a high-pressure shaft coupled to the high-pressure compressor and the high-pressure turbine. Th...