ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,176, issued on July 22, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Rotor system for a turbine engine" was invented by Drew M. Capps (Avon, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor system for a turbine engine. The rotor system includes a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes a plurality of rotor blades that rotate. The stator assembly includes a plurality of stator vanes arranged circumferentially about the stator assembly and includes at least one pair of non-uniform gaps between adjacent stator vanes. The plurality of stator vanes includes a first group of stator vanes having a first n...