US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 7 for "Composite airfoil assembly having a tip cap" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,396, issued on July 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite airfoil assembly having a tip cap" was invented by Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav (Bangalore, India), Frank Worthoff (West Chester, Ohio), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Nitesh Jain (Bangalore, India) and Balaraju Suresh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite airfoil assembly for a turbine engine. The turbine engine has a fan section, a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. The composite airfoil assembly has an outer wall, a composite body, and a tip cap. The composite bo...