US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Feb. 10 for "Woven reinforcing fiber airfoil structure for a turbine engine" (Ohio, Indiana, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,225, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Woven reinforcing fiber airfoil structure for a turbine engine" was invented by Aaron M. Gilbert (West Newbury, Mass.), Ming Xie (Dayton, Ohio), Mitchell Boyer (Cincinnati), Heidi J. Stegemiller (Franklin, Ohio) and Daniel T. Weisbrod (Sunman, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil includes a non-uniform weave structure that is two-dimensional or three-dimensional, the non-uniform weave structure including a plurality of reinforcing fibers, the non-uniform weave structure having a first region with a first stiffness and a second region with a ...