US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Sept. 9 for "Circumferential row of vanes for a gas turbine engine and having non-uniform vane spacing" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,722, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Circumferential row of vanes for a gas turbine engine and having non-uniform vane spacing" was invented by Julia Elizabeth Phillips (Cincinnati) and Brandon Chapman (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circumferential row of vanes for a gas turbine engine, the circumferential row of vanes has non-uniform spacing. The circumferential row of vanes includes a plurality of stator vanes arranged circumferentially about an inner ring. The plurality of stator vanes include a first group of stator vanes having a first spacing between adjacent...