US Patent Issued to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS, PFAFFIKON on March 17 for "Rotor blade, method for manufacturing a rotor blade and a gas turbine engine" (Swiss, German, Austrian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,880, issued on March 17, was assigned to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Rotor blade, method for manufacturing a rotor blade and a gas turbine engine" was invented by Lin Shang (Bad Ragaz, Switzerland), Sebastien Guimond (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Volker Derflinger (Feldkirch, Austria), Toby Charles Middlemiss (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Thomas Wunderlich (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany), Dan Roth-Fagaraseanu (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany) and Susanne Schrufer (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor blade in a gas turbine engine having a coating on a blade tip of the...