US Patent Issued to General Electric on Nov. 25 for "Turbine engine having a variable pitch airfoil assembly" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,421, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine having a variable pitch airfoil assembly" was invented by Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav (Bangalore, India), Nitesh Jain (Bangalore, India) and Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine comprising a fan section, a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement and defining a stator portion and a rotor portion, which rotates about an engine centerline. The rotor portion comprising a variable pitch airfoil assembly. The variable pitch airfoil assembly having an ai...