US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 24 for "Gas turbine engine with composite airfoil and preform core" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,414, issued on March 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine with composite airfoil and preform core" was invented by Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Liberty Township, Ohio), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.) and Michael John Franks (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan section, a compressor section, combustion section, and turbine section in serial flow arrangement, that defining an engine centerline extending between a forward direction and an aft direction. A composite component, such as an airfoil, extends between a root ...