US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY POLSKA SP. Z on Dec. 9 for "Controlling excitation loads associated with open rotor aeronautical engines" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,988, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio) and GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY POLSKA SP. Z O.O. (Warsaw, Poland).

"Controlling excitation loads associated with open rotor aeronautical engines" was invented by Amit Zutshi (Mason, Ohio), Rafal Sarba (Warsaw, Poland), James Ryan Reepmeyer (Montgomery, Ohio), Stefan Joseph Cafaro (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Inenhe Mohammed Khalid (West Chester, Ohio), Daniel Edward Mollmann (Cincinnati) and Arjan Johannes Hegeman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open rotor aeronautical engine may include a core engine, a plurality of unducted airfoils, and a pitch cha...