ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,954, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft having an aircraft body including a feature" was invented by Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), Shourya Otta (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Trevor Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft having a fuselage, an aircraft body, at least one aircraft engine system and a feature. The fuselage defining a longitudinal centerline. The at least one aircraft engine system defining an axial centerline. The at least one aircraft engine system having a nacelle and at least one rotatable propeller. The at least one rotatable propeller having...