US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Sept. 2 for "Skin assembly and method for manufacturing the same" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,002, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Skin assembly and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Grant Henson (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin assembly that includes a first ceramic-matrix-composite skin panel including one or more first fingers extending along a first direction. The skin assembly further includes a second ceramic-matrix-composite skin panel including one or more second fingers extending along the first direction. The one or more second fingers interdigitated with the one or more first fingers to define a plurality of staggered expansion ga...