US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 31 for "Nacelle inlet duct for a ducted fan engine" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,559, issued on March 31, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Nacelle inlet duct for a ducted fan engine" was invented by Nikolai Pastouchenko (Latham, N.Y.), Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), Trevor H. Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Timothy Richard Depuy (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inlet duct for a nacelle of a ducted fan engine includes an inlet portion having an inlet lip and a hardwall portion, a highlight plane defined at an upstream end of the inlet portion, and an acoustic liner downstream of the inlet portion, a hardwall-acoustic liner interface defined at an interface of t...