US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on March 17 for "Composite structure for a turbine engine" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,601, issued on March 17, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite structure for a turbine engine" was invented by Mitchell Boyer (Cincinnati), Ming Xie (Dayton, Ohio), Leslie L. Langenbrunner (Cincinnati) and Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a composite component having an outer shell, an inner hub, and a plurality of struts connecting the outer shell and the inner hub. An initial outer shell hoop preform is woven and includes a plurality of bifurcated strut portions on an exterior side of the initial outer shell hoop preform. The initial...