US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE on Oct. 14 for "Gas turbine engine with relative clocking of bifurcations" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,308, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).

"Gas turbine engine with relative clocking of bifurcations" was invented by Davendu Y Kulkarni (Derby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine for an aircraft comprises: an air intake comprising a lip, a most upstream portion of which defining a highlight plane; an engine core comprising a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine coupled to the compressor through a shaft; a fan located upstream of the engine core and adapted to rotate about an engine main axis, the fan comprising a plurality of fan blades having a respective leading edge, traili...