US Patent Issued to GE Avio on Sept. 29 for "Damper assembly" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,668, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GE Avio S.R.L. (Rivalti di Torino, Italy).

"Damper assembly" was invented by Antonio Giuseppe D'Ettole (Rivoli, Italy), Gianmaria Sartor (San Martino di Lupari, Italy), Veronica Iannotti (Turin, Italy) and Emanuele Rosso (Grugliasco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damper assembly for a blade, the damper assembly defining a longitudinal direction, a lateral direction, and a vertical direction and including a base extending in the longitudinal direction from a first end to a second end, the base including a forward face, a rear face, and a top face, a first contact region defined on the...