US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 8 for "Gas turbine engine" (Ohio, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,649, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine" was invented by Timothy Richard DePuy (Liberty Township, Ohio), Trevor Goerig (Mt. Healthy, Ohio), Jeffrey Donald Clements (Mason, Ohio), Syed Arif Khalid (West Chester, Ohio), Daniel Alan Niergarth (Norwood, Ohio), Jeffrey S. Spruill (Hillsboro, Ohio), Erich Alois Krammer (West Chester, Ohio), Matthew Kenneth MacDonald (Austin, Texas) and Scott Alan Schimmels (Miamisburg, Ohio).

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 arranged i...