US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 28 for "Turbine engine with compliant axial retainer" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,793, issued on July 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine with compliant axial retainer" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Evendale, Ohio) and Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan section, a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement, and defining an engine centerline extending between a forward direction and an aft direction. A disk includes a slot for mounting a composite airfoil to the disk. An axial retainer couples to the disk and secures th...