US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 5 for "Gas turbine exhaust nozzle noise abatement" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,381, issued on May 5, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine exhaust nozzle noise abatement" was invented by Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), Steven B. Morris (Mason, Ohio), Nikolai N. Pastouchenko (Latham, N.Y.) and Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust nozzle for a gas turbine engine. The exhaust nozzle comprises a nozzle body having an upstream end axially spaced from a downstream end with respect to an axial centerline of the nozzle body, and a plurality of chevrons circumferentially spaced apart and extending downstream from the downstream end. Each chevr...