US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 25 for "Cowl assembly for a propulsor" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,923, issued on March 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Cowl assembly for a propulsor" was invented by Thomas Malkus (Albany, N.Y.), Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsor is provided having a power source; a fan section coupled to the power source and configured to provide thrust opposite a downstream direction; and a cowl assembly at least partially enclosing the power source and the fan section, the cowl assembly including: a forward cowl component; a first aft cowl component disposed in the downstream direction relative t...