US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 27 for "Method of forming an airfoil assembly having a composite spar" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,083, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method of forming an airfoil assembly having a composite spar" was invented by Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen (Cincinnati), Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio), Tod Winton Davis (Cincinnati), Li Zheng (Cohoes, N.Y.), Tomas Muchenik (Cincinnati), Daryl John Burford (Coleford, Great Britain) and Pawel Pres (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an airfoil assembly for a turbine engine having a composite spar, a sleeve, and a set of lobes. The composite spar includes an exterior spar portion, where at least part of the ...