US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Nov. 25 for "Turbofan engine including a fan actuation system" (Kentucky, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,415, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbofan engine including a fan actuation system" was invented by Randy M. Vondrell (Newport, Ky.) and Keith A. Miedema (Fairfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbofan engine for an aircraft includes a fan and a fan actuation system. The fan has a plurality of fan blades coupled to a fan shaft having one or more fan bearings. The fan blades are rotatable about a pitch axis. The fan actuation system is disposed within a fan hub and includes one or more actuators for rotating the fan blades about the pitch axis and one or more radial thrust b...