US Patent Issued to General Electric on Aug. 25 for "Localized riblets for a flowpath surface" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,358, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Localized riblets for a flowpath surface" was invented by Aamir Shabbir (Westlake, Ohio), William J. Solomon (Montgomery, Ohio), Matthew F. Adam (West Chester, Ohio) and Daniel Allen Wilkin II (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine compressor airfoil includes a body having a root coupled to a hub or casing of a turbine engine, the body extending in a radial direction from the root to a tip and in an axial direction from a leading edge to a trailing edge, the body defining a pressure side and a suction side opposite the pressur...