ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,062, issued on June 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES LTD. (Komaki, Japan).
"Turbine" was invented by Sotaro Takei (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine includes a rotor and a plurality of turbine blades along the rotor. The plurality of turbine blades includes first turbine blades including first moving blades and first shrouds provided to tip ends of the first moving blades, and second turbine blades including second moving blades adjacent to the first moving blades in a first direction of the rotor and second shrouds provided to tip ends of the second blades; in an overlapping region in which a...