US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 9 for "Engine having an open fan with reduced boundary layer induced distortion" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,749, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Engine having an open fan with reduced boundary layer induced distortion" was invented by William Joseph Bowden (Cleves, Ohio), Steven B. Morris (Mason, Ohio) and Vicente Jerez Fidalgo (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine includes a fan section having an open fan defining an axial centerline and a rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of fan blades mounted to a hub and being rotatable about the axial centerline. The engine also includes a turbomachine downstream of the fan section. The turbomachine includes a core cowl that defines ...