US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 20 for "Aircraft engine" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,615, issued on May 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft engine" was invented by Brendan Michael Freely (Loveland, Ohio), Kurt David Murrow (Springboro, Ohio) and Michael James McMahon (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an aircraft engine coupled to a wing of an aircraft including: setting a pitch of a plurality of rotor blades of a rotor assembly of the aircraft engine at non-uniform pitch angles along a circumferential direction of the aircraft engine such that the plurality of rotor blades define a first pitch at a first position and a second pitch at a second position, ...