US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Oct. 14 for "Turbine engine having a variable engine intake system" (Kentucky, Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,333, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine having a variable engine intake system" was invented by Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Jeffrey D. Clements (Mason, Ohio), Randy M. Vondrell (Newport, Ky.), Scott Alan Schimmels (Miamisburg, Ohio) and Keith E. Blodgett (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine including a fan having a plurality of fan blades, a turbo-engine positioned downstream of the fan and having a core inlet, an engine intake that extends to the core inlet, and a variable engine intake system. Air enter...