US Patent Issued to General Electric on Nov. 3 for "Airfoil assembly" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,634, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Airfoil assembly" was invented by Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), Valeria Andreoli (Watertown, Mass.) and Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first blade having a first leading edge and a first trailing edge, and a second blade circumferentially spaced from the first blade where the second blade has a second leading edge and a second trailing edge. The first blade includes a feature formed on the first leading edge where the first blade includes a chord extending...