ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,708, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Fan assembly for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Nicholas M. Daggett (Camden, Maine) and Christopher C. Glynn (Clearwater Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a fan actuation system, a fan blade hub, a plurality of fan blades, and a counterweight system arranged disconnected from the plurality of fan blades. The counterweight system includes a counterweight hub, and a plurality of counterweight levers each having a counterweight trunnion rotationally connected to the counterweight hub, a canti...