ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,060, issued on June 30, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).
"Airfoil rotor hub system having intentional frequency mistuning" was invented by Kevin E. Turner (Liberty Township, Ohio), Yoon Seok Choi (Kenwood, Ohio), Cem Tutcu (Istanbul), Keegan Nathaniel Mehrtens (Peabody, Mass.), Ramakrishna Mallina (Mason, Ohio) and Robert Bruce Dickman (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil rotor hub system including a rotor hub, the rotor hub having a variable radius around a circumference of the rotor hub, and a plurality of airfoils connected to the rotor hub, a first airfoil in the plurality of airfoils hav...