ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,261, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Gas turbine engine" was invented by Brandon Wayne Miller (Liberty Township, Ohio), Andrew Hudecki (Milford, Ohio), Steven Douglas Johnson (Milford, Ohio), Eric Barre (Cincinnati), John Carl Glessner (Kings Mills, Ohio) and Efren Souza Chavez (Queretaro, Mexico).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine including: a fan assembly comprising a fan; and a turbomachine drivingly coupled to the fan and including a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order and defining in part a working gas flowpath,...