US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on March 24 for "Unidirectional fan brake for a gas turbine engine" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,446, issued on March 24, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Unidirectional fan brake for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Eric Barre (Cincinnati), Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio) and Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine has a longitudinal centerline axis. The turbine engine includes a fan, a turbo-engine, and a unidirectional brake. The fan includes a plurality of fan blades that rotate in a first direction about the longitudinal centerline axis. The turbo-engine includes a combustor that combusts compressed air and fuel to generate combustion gases and ...