US Patent Issued to MTU Aero Engines on June 23 for "Repair method for turbine blades" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,942, issued on June 23, was assigned to MTU Aero Engines AG (Munich).

"Repair method for turbine blades" was invented by Lars Aschermann (Peine, Germany), Bastian Mania (Hannover, Germany), Alexandre Minso (Hannover, Germany), Frank Seidel (Grossburgwedel, Germany) and Matthias Wagner (Buchholz-Trelde, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a repair method for guide blades of a gas turbine. The method comprises:providing at least one guide blade to be maintained;capturing the actual geometry of the guide blade to be maintained with application of at least one measuring method;comparing the actual geometry captured by the...