ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,666, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine with a blade assembly having cooling holes" was invented by Emily K. Langlois (Loveland, Ohio), Brian Patrick Peterson (Madeira, Ohio), Haidong Liu (Weston, Mass.), Lauren Rose Watson (West Chester, Ohio) and Daniel Endecott Osgood (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes an engine core extending along an engine centerline and includes a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. A set of blades are circumferentially arranged in the turbine section and the compressor ...