US Patent Issued to General Electric, GE Aviation Systems on Sept. 16 for "Trunnion-to-disk connection for an open fan configuration aircraft powerplant" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,276, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and GE Aviation Systems Ltd. (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

"Trunnion-to-disk connection for an open fan configuration aircraft powerplant" was invented by Nicholas M. Daggett (Camden, Maine), Frank Worthoff (West Chester, Ohio), Pawel Pres (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Daryl John Burford (Gloucester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trunnion-to-disk connection for use on an open fan configuration of a gas turbine engine may include an integral trunnion and blade spar inserted through a trunnion aperture of a fan disk and supported by top be...