US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 21 for "Turbine engine with a rotating blade having a fin" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,118, issued on July 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine with a rotating blade having a fin" was invented by Valeria Andreoli (Watertown, Mass.), Shashwat Swami Jaiswal (Bengaluru, India) and Thomas William Vandeputte (Scotia, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade assembly for a gas turbine engine having an engine casing, with the blade assembly being configured to rotate about a rotational axis. The blade assembly having a blade, and at least one fin. The blade extending between a root and a tip, with the tip being spaced radially from the engine casing to define a space therebetween. The ...