US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 23 for "Gas turbine engine with third stream" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,917, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine with third stream" was invented by Randy M. Vondrell (Newport, Ky.), Alexander Kimberley Simpson (Cincinnati), David Marion Ostdiek (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Craig William Higgins (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine defining an engine inlet to an inlet duct, a fan duct inlet to a fan duct, and a core inlet to a core duct, a primary fan driven by the turbomachine, a secondary fan located downstream of the primary fan within the inlet duct, and a booster located downstre...