US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on July 1 for "Turbofan engine including a fan actuation system" (Kentucky, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,178, issued on July 1, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbofan engine including a fan actuation system" was invented by Randy M. Vondrell (Newport, Ky.) and Keith A. Miedema (Fairfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbofan engine includes a fan and a fan actuation system. The fan has a plurality of fan blades. Each of the plurality of fan blades is rotatable about a pitch axis. The fan actuation system includes one or more actuators for rotating the plurality of fan blades about the pitch axis and one or more thrust bearings. The fan actuation system is characterized by a fan actuation system env...