US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 24 for "Gas turbine engines having moveable inlet guide vanes and stator vanes" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,743, issued on June 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engines having moveable inlet guide vanes and stator vanes" was invented by Matthew F. Adam (Evendale, Ohio), Aamir Shabbir (Westlake, Ohio) and Gregory John Kajfasz (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gas turbine engines having moveable inlet guide vanes and stator vanes are described herein. An example gas turbine engine includes a casing defining a flow passageway to a compressor. The casing includes an outer radial wall and an inner radial wall. The compressor includes alternating stages of rotor blades and stator vanes in the f...