US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 15 for "Aircraft with an unducted fan propulsor" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,188, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft with an unducted fan propulsor" was invented by Sara Elizabeth Carle (Columbus, Ohio), Daniel L. Tweedt (West Chester, Ohio), Syed Arif Khalid (West Chester, Ohio), Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow (Montgomery, Ohio), William Bowden (Cleves, Ohio), Randy M. Vondrell (Newport, Ky.) and Keith A. Miedema (Fairfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is generally related to aircraft having one or more unducted fan propulsors at locations within specific regions relative to an airfoil, such as a wing or horizontal stabilizer. More...