US Patent Issued to General Electric on Nov. 4 for "Aircraft with a multi-fan propulsion system for controlling flight orientation transitions" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,640, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft with a multi-fan propulsion system for controlling flight orientation transitions" was invented by Alexis Raquel Nunes (West Chester, Ohio) and Kurt David Murrow (Dayton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft equipped with a multi-fan propulsion system for controlling flight orientation transitions is provided. In one example aspect, an aircraft includes a fuselage and a pair of wings. The aircraft includes a propulsion system having a first propulsor and a second propulsor each mounted to the fuselage. The first propulsor has a fan posit...