US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 3 for "Ice-interference features for aircraft" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,844, issued on March 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Ice-interference features for aircraft" was invented by Charles D. Califf (Greendale, Ind.) and Christopher E. LaMaster (Franklin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example booster splitter includes an inner cylindrical structure; an outer cylindrical structure concentric with the inner cylindrical structure; an annular lip having an arc extending between the inner cylindrical structure and the outer cylindrical structure; a first protrusion at a first circumferential position on the annular lip, the first protrusion protruding axially from the annul...