US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 20 for "Turbine engine having a compressor with an inducer" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,535, issued on May 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine having a compressor with an inducer" was invented by Antonio Guijarro Valencia (Munich), Scott Alan Schimmels (Miamisburg, Ohio) and Steven Douglas Johnson (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine having a rotor rotatable about a rotational axis, a stator, a plurality of circumferentially spaced bleed air passages, and an inducer. The plurality of circumferentially spaced bleed air passages being located between an axially adjacent set of vanes of the stator and blades of the rotor. The inducer including a nozzle passag...