US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 24 for "Method and system for inspecting cooling holes of a turbine engine component" (New York, Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,485, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method and system for inspecting cooling holes of a turbine engine component" was invented by Guanghua Wang (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Bryon Edward Knight (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Andrew Lee Trimmer (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Jason Edward Dees (Liberty Township, Ohio), Bernard Patrick Bewlay (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Sean Robert Farrell (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of imaging a turbine engine test component with a first surface and a second surface that is spaced from the first surface. The turbine engine test component includes a plurality of f...