ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,873, issued on July 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Airfoils and airfoil assemblies with trailing edge features" was invented by Trevor H. Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil assembly for turbine engines is provided. The airfoil assembly includes a plurality of airfoils and an airfoil includes a first surface defining a pressure side and a second surface defining a suction side, a plurality of first chord sections defining at least one first chord length, a plurality of second chord sections defining at least one second chord length, a...