US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 7 for "Methods and apparatus to reduce deflection of an airfoil" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,740, issued on April 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods and apparatus to reduce deflection of an airfoil" was invented by Nicholas J. Kray (West Chester, Ohio), Gary W. Bryant (West Chester, Ohio) and Nitesh Jain (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to reduce deflection of an airfoil are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a plate including an aperture, the airfoil disposed in the aperture, and a damper operatively coupled between the plate and a hub of the airfoil, the damper to transform flexural deflection of the airfoil to radial deflection of...