US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 21 for "Blended wing aircraft" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,134, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Blended wing aircraft" was invented by Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Brandon Wayne Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Jeffrey Donald Clements (Mason, Ohio) and Daniel Alan Niergarth (Norwood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blended wing aircraft is provided, including a body having a fuselage and a pair of wings extending outward from the fuselage; and an aircraft engine defining an outlet and including a thrust reverser assembly, the thrust reverser assembly including a deployable structure extending less than 360 degrees around the outlet."

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