US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 14 for "Gas turbine engine with bow wave mitigation" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,304, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine with bow wave mitigation" was invented by Paul Hadley Vitt (Liberty Township, Ohio), Prem Venugopal (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Thomas William Vandeputte (Scotia, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine having a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section. The turbine section includes a band having an upstream end and a downstream end. The band extends between the upstream end and the downstream end, and the band at least partially defines the working gas flow path. A plurality o...