US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 28 for "Turbomachine and method of assembly" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,874, issued on July 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbomachine and method of assembly" was invented by Jixian Yao (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), William J. Solomon (Montgomery, Ohio), Giridhar Jothiprasad (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbomachine includes an annular casing and a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline. The annular casing is formed at least partially of a composite material. The fan includes fan blades that exte...