US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 23 for "Turbomachine and method of assembly" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,016, issued on June 23, 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 fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The fan blades include a...