US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 9 for "Three-stream gas turbine engine control" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,758, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Three-stream gas turbine engine control" was invented by David Marion Ostdiek (Liberty Township, Ohio), Jeffrey S. Spruill (Hillsboro, Ohio), Stefan Joseph Cafaro (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and David Alexander Hiett (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system and schemes for controlling a three-stream gas turbine engine are disclosed. In one aspect, a three-stream engine is architecturally arranged so as to define a primary bypass flowpath, a secondary bypass flowpath, and a core flowpath that may each output propulsive thrust. The three-stre...