US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Aug. 11 for "Method of manufacturing a composite component for a gas turbine engine" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,156, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method of manufacturing a composite component for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Mitchell Boyer (Cincinnati), Ming Xie (Dayton, Ohio), Leslie L. Langenbrunner (Cincinnati), Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong (Needham, Mass.) and Mingchao Wang (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a composite component having an outer shell, an inner hub, and a plurality of struts connecting the outer shell and the inner hub. An outer shell hoop preform and an inner hub hoop preform are woven and installed on a mold tooling structu...