US Patent Issued to General Electric on Aug. 5 for "Gas turbine engine having a heat exchanger located in an annular duct" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,932, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine having a heat exchanger located in an annular duct" was invented by Scott Alan Schimmels (Miamisburg, Ohio), Jeffrey Douglas Rambo (Mason, Ohio), Timothy Richard DePuy (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Steven B. Morris (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger positioned within an annular duct of a gas turbine engine is provided. The heat exchanger extends substantially continuously along the circumferential direction and defining a heat exchanger height equal to at least 10% of a duct height. An effective transmission loss ...