ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,532, issued on April 15, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Gas turbine engine noise reduction" was invented by Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Harry Kirk Mathews Jr. (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Eric Richard Westervelt (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Honggang Wang (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Timothy Richard DePuy (Liberty Township, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine includes a low pressure spool, a high pressure spool, and an alternative power source. The alternative power source is configured to add power to the high pressure spool. A controller is configured to determ...