US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 18 for "Turbofan engine including integrated pylon and fan outlet guide vane with noise reduction features" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,053, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Turbofan engine including integrated pylon and fan outlet guide vane with noise reduction features" was invented by Trevor H. Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.) and Egbert Geertsema (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbofan engine and an outlet guide vane structure for the turbofan engine is provided. The outlet guide vane structure includes a non-uniform plurality of outlet guide vanes utilized in a bypass duct and between a radially inward wall and a radially outward wall. The non-uniform plurality of outlet g...