US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 5 for "Gas turbine engine having a bypass passage, a fan duct, and a core duct" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,384, issued on May 5, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine having a bypass passage, a fan duct, and a core duct" was invented by Brandon Wayne Miller (Liberty Township, Ohio), Randy M. Vondrell (Newport, Ky.), David Marion Ostdiek (Liberty Township, Ohio), Craig William Higgins (Liberty Township, Ohio), Alexander Kimberley Simpson (Cincinnati) and Syed Arif Khalid (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes: a turbomachine comprising a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order, the turbomachine defining an engi...