US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Feb. 17 for "Method and system of forming a composite airfoil having a set of plies" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,352, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method and system of forming a composite airfoil having a set of plies" was invented by Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio) and Wendy Wen-Ling Lin (Montgomery, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an assembly. The assembly having a stack of plies and an airfoil portion. The airfoil portion has an outer wall extending between a root and a tip in a spanwise direction, and between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The assembly has a first set of plies and a second set of plies. The first set of plies form at least a portion of t...