US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 3 for "Aircraft bird strike reduction device" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,330, issued on March 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft bird strike reduction device" was invented by Kirti Petkar (Bengaluru, India), Sesha Subramanian (Bengaluru, India) and Nicholas J. Kray (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a device for preventing bird strikes to an engine. The device includes a projector mounted on a component of the engine. The projector is positioned to project an image outside of the engine. In another aspect, an engine for an aircraft. The engine includes an engine component and a projector mounted on the engine component. The projector is positioned t...