US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 9 for "Outlet guide vane assembly for a turbofan engine" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,642, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Outlet guide vane assembly for a turbofan engine" was invented by Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), Ravish Karve (Bengaluru, India), Sara Elizabeth Carle (Hilliard, Ohio) and Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbofan engine defining a circumferential direction is provided. The turbofan engine includes: a turbomachine, the turbomachine defining a pylon attachment location along the circumferential direction; an unducted rotor assembly drivingly coupled to the turbomachine, the unducted rotor assembly including a plu...