ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,925, issued on March 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine with third stream" was invented by Brandon Wayne Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Randy M. Vondrell (Newport, Ky.), David Marion Ostdiek (Liberty Township, Ohio), Craig William Higgins (Liberty Township, Ohio), Alexander Kimberley Simpson (Cincinnati), Syed J. Khalid (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Jeffrey S. Spruill (Hillsboro, Ohio), Daniel Lawrence Tweedt (West Chester, Ohio), William Joseph Solomon (Montgomery, Ohio) and Kevin Edward Hinderliter (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine eng...