US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 11 for "Gas turbine engine with variable pitch inlet pre-swirl features" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,980, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine with variable pitch inlet pre-swirl features" was invented by Brandon Wayne Miller (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan having a plurality of fan blades, a turbomachine operably coupled to the fan for driving the fan, the turbomachine including a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow order and together defining a core air flowpath, a nacelle surrounding and at least partially enclosing the fan, the n...