US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 16 for "Aerodynamic tip feature" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,162, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aerodynamic tip feature" was invented by Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft defines a longitudinal direction, a vertical direction, and a transverse direction. The aircraft includes a fuselage; and a wing extending from the fuselage generally along the transverse direction and defining an outer end along the transverse direction. The wing includes a wing tip assembly at the outer end of the wing, the wing tip assembly defining an axis substantially parallel to the long...