US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 28 for "Gas turbine engines and methods associated therewith" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,792, issued on July 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engines and methods associated therewith" was invented by Daniel Endecott Osgood (Loveland, Ohio), Gregory Terrence Garay (West Chester, Ohio), Ryan Christopher Jones (Cincinnati) and Tingfan Pang (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a gas turbine engine component, the method including forming a plurality of cooling apertures in a preform structure of the component, the plurality of cooling apertures of the preform structure comprising a first cooling aperture and a second cooling aperture, wherein cross-secti...