US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Sept. 22 for "Gearbox assembly having a segmented scavenge gutter for a turbine engine" (Turkish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,496, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gearbox assembly having a segmented scavenge gutter for a turbine engine" was invented by Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Paul Pezzi (Cincinnati), Arda Unsal (Istanbul) and Andrew Hudecki (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearbox assembly for a turbine engine. The gearbox assembly includes a gearbox having a plurality of gears, and a scavenge gutter radially outward of the gearbox and mounted to a fan frame flange of a fan frame of the turbine engine, the scavenge gutter being configured to collect lubricant that is ejected by th...