US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 22 for "Aircraft with an unducted fan propulsor" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,446, issued on July 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft with an unducted fan propulsor" was invented by Sara Elizabeth Carle (Columbus, Ohio), Daniel L. Tweedt (West Chester, Ohio), Syed Arif Khalid (West Chester, Ohio), Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow (Montgomery, Ohio) and William Bowden (Cleves, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is generally related to aircraft having one or more unducted fan propulsors at locations within specific regions relative to an airfoil, such as a wing or horizontal stabilizer. More specifically, the specific regions are located where there is a relativ...