US Patent Issued to General Electric, GE Avio on July 15 for "Air inlet configurations for hybrid aircraft" (American, Polish, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,637, issued on July 15, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and GE Avio S.r.l. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Air inlet configurations for hybrid aircraft" was invented by Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Vincenzo Martina (Rivalta di Torino, Italy) and Tomasz Iglewski (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid electric turboprop includes a propeller, a thermal engine, an electric motor, a gearbox, and an air inlet. The propeller is configured to rotate about a propeller axis and includes a plurality of blades extending radially outwardly from the propeller axis such that, as the propeller is rotated ab...