ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,417, issued on June 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and General Electric Co. Polska Sp. z o.o. (Warsaw, Poland).

"Reverse flow gas turbine engine having electric machine" was invented by Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.) and Adam Tomasz Pazinski (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine assembly includes a gas turbine engine having an intake channel configured to receive an incoming flow of air and form an intake flow of air, the intake channel configured to turn the received incoming flow of air from an incoming flow direction to a first axial direction of the gas turbine engine,...