ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,368, issued on May 5, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Gas turbine engine" was invented by Brandon Wayne Miller (Liberty Township, Ohio), Andrew Hudecki (Milford, Ohio) and Eric Barre (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes: a fan; a turbomachine drivingly coupled to the fan and defining in part a working gas flowpath, the gas turbine engine defining a bypass passage over the turbomachine, the turbomachine defining an annular cooling passage extending between a CP inlet and a CP outlet, the CP inlet in airflow communication with the working gas ...