US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 3 for "Unducted single rotor engine and method for operation" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,315, issued on June 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Unducted single rotor engine and method for operation" was invented by Syed Arif Khalid (West Chester, Ohio) and Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow (Montgomery, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system is provided, the propulsion system including a rotor assembly configured to rotate relative to the engine centerline axis, and wherein one or more blades of the rotor assembly are configured to rotate along a blade pitch angle axis. A vane assembly is positioned in aerodynamic relationship with the rotor assembly. The vane assembly includes one or more...