US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 14 for "Turbine engine with composite airfoils" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,269, issued on April 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine with composite airfoils" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio) and Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a turbomachine having a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section. The turbine engine includes a set of composite airfoils, where a composite airfoil of the set of composite airfoils includes a composite body that extends chordwise between a composite leading edge and a trailing edge. A leading edge protector is coupled to the composite body. A platform...