ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,979, issued on May 6, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Turbine engine and turbine nozzle" was invented by Paul Hadley Vitt (Liberty Township, Ohio), Jeffrey Donald Clements (Mason, Ohio), Brian Keith Kestner (Cincinnati) and Shai Birmaher (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a core having a fan section, a compressor section, combustion section, and turbine section in serial flow arrangement and defining an engine centerline. The turbine section has a set of turbine stages, having paired sets of non-rotating, circumferentially spaced vanes defining a respective nozzle, and rotatin...