ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,217, issued on July 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Electric machine assembly" was invented by Ethan Patrick O'Connor (Hamilton, Ohio), Gert Johannes van der Merwe (Lebanon, Ohio) and Alexander Thomas Hills (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid electric gas turbine engine is provided. The hybrid electric gas turbine engine includes: a turbomachine having a compressor section and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order, the compressor section and turbine section together defining a core air flowpath, the turbomachine defining a core air flowpath exhaust; and an electric machine assembl...