US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 3 for "Gas turbine engine with third stream" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,866, issued on March 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine with third stream" was invented by Brandon W. Miller (Evendale, Ohio), Randy M. Vondrell (Evendale, Ohio), David M. Ostdiek (Evendale, Ohio), Craig W. Higgins (Evendale, Ohio), Alexander Simpson (Evendale, Ohio) and William Bowden (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine defining an engine inlet to an inlet duct, a fan duct inlet to a fan duct, and a core inlet to a core duct; a primary fan driven by the turbomachine; and a secondary fan located downstream of the primary fan within the ...