US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 24 for "Gas turbine engine with composite airfoil and method of forming" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,413, issued on March 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine with composite airfoil and method of forming" was invented by Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen (Cincinnati), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio) and Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan section, a compressor section, combustor section, and turbine section in serial flow arrangement, and defines an engine centerline extending a forward to an aft. A composite airfoil, provided in one of the fan section, the compressor section, or th...