US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 19 for "Blended wing aircraft" (Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,300, issued on May 19, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Blended wing aircraft" was invented by Jeffrey Donald Clements (Mason, Ohio), Daniel Alan Niergarth (Norwood, Ohio), Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.) and James Robert Laverty (Center Valley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a first engine having a first inlet and a first outlet, a second engine having a second inlet and a second outlet, and an exhaust extending in a lateral direction outboard of the first outlet and the second outlet and rearward in a longitudinal direction from the first outlet and the ...