US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 30 for "Turbomachine and method of assembly" (New York, Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,131, issued on June 30, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbomachine and method of assembly" was invented by Jixian Yao (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Trevor H. Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), William J. Solomon (Montgomery, Ohio), Giridhar Jothiprasad (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Aaron J. King (West Harrison, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbomachine includes an annular casing and a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline. The fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The fan has an average chor...