US Patent Issued to General Electric on Aug. 26 for "Turbomachinery engines with high-speed low-pressure turbines" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,684, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Cincinnati).

"Turbomachinery engines with high-speed low-pressure turbines" was invented by Pranav R. Kamat (Bengaluru, India), Bhaskar Nanda Mondal (Bengaluru, India) and Jeffrey D. Clements (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbomachinery engine includes a fan assembly, a low-pressure turbine, and a gearbox. The fan assembly includes a plurality of fan blades. The low-pressure turbine includes four rotating stages. The low-pressure turbine includes an area ratio equal to the annular exit area of an aft-most rotating stage of the low-pressure turbine divide...