ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,369, issued on May 5, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Propulsion engine and cowl" was invented by Peeyush Pankaj (Bangalore, India), Narayanan Payyoor (Bangalore, India) and Richard Schmidt (Loveland, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system for an aircraft including a core engine connected to a forward frame and a turbine frame assembly, and an aft frame assembly is connected by a turbine casing to the core engine aft of the turbine frame assembly. A core cowl surrounds the core engine, wherein the core cowl is connected to the forward frame. A plurality of cowl mount links selectively loads ...