US Patent Issued to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for preventing liberation and damage to airfoils in a gas turbine" (South Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,640, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Systems and methods for preventing liberation and damage to airfoils in a gas turbine" was invented by Junyoung Park (Greenville, S.C.), Jeffrey M Breznak (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Jon C. Schaeffer (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a replaceable galvanic protection anode system for preventing and limiting the effects of liberation and damage to airfoils in a gas turbine, wherein turbine components are covered by a sacrificial material. The galvanic protection layer of the replaceable anodes...