ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,820, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Mixer vanes" was invented by Rimple Rangrej (Bengaluru, India), Saket Singh (Bengaluru, India) and Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main mixer for an engine. The main mixer includes a plurality of mixer vanes located circumferentially around a mixer body. Each mixer vane includes a waveform profile. The waveform profile detaches or trips a boundary layer of an air flow across the mixer vane such that the waveform profile introduces turbulence into the air flow."
The patent was filed on Dec. 30, 2024, under Application No....