US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Dec. 16 for "Turbine engine including a fan assembly having a damper" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,908, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine including a fan assembly having a damper" was invented by Abhijeet Yadav (Bengaluru, India), Nicholas J. Kray (Mason, Ohio), Nitesh Jain (Bengaluru, India), Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio) and Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine experiences 1P vibrations. The turbine engine includes a turbo-engine, a compressor for compressing air, and a combustor for combusting fuel and the compressed air to generate combustion gases. A turbine receives the combustion gases and drives a fan as...