US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 7 for "Circumferentially varying fan casing treatments for reducing fan noise effects" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,671, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Circumferentially varying fan casing treatments for reducing fan noise effects" was invented by Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Ramakrishna Venkata Mallina (Mason, Ohio), Giridhar Jothiprasad (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.) and Thomas Malkus (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary component for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of rotor blades operably coupled to a rotating shaft extending along the central axis and an outer casing arranged exterior to the plurality of rotor blades in a radial direct...