US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 24 for "Airflow mixer assembly for a gas turbine engine" (Kentucky, Ohio, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,455, issued on March 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Airflow mixer assembly for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Syed J. Khalid (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), David Marion Ostdiek (Liberty Township, Ohio), Randy M. Vondrell (Newport, Ky.), Brandon Wayne Miller (Liberty Township, Ohio), 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 having a turbomachine; a primary fan driven by the turbomachine; a secondary fan located downstream of the primary fan within the inlet duct, the gas turbine engine def...