US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 19 for "Gas turbine engine with acoustic spacing of the fan blades and outlet guide vanes" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,197, issued on May 19, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine with acoustic spacing of the fan blades and outlet guide vanes" was invented by Brandon Wayne Miller (Evendale, Ohio), Egbert Geertsema (Evendale, Ohio), Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Andrew Hudecki (Evendale, Ohio), Timothy Richard DePuy (Evendale, Ohio), John C. Schilling (Evendale, Ohio), Frank Worthoff (Evendale, Ohio) and Tsuguji Nakano (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan, an engine core, a fan case housing the fan and the engine core, a plurality of outlet guide vanes extending be...