US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on May 12 for "Laser heating for the manufacture or repair of a turbine blade" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,310, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Laser heating for the manufacture or repair of a turbine blade" was invented by Damien Jonathan Julien Courapied (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Guillaume Valentin Giamondo Marion (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for laser heating of a mechanical part of the turbine blade or turbine blade element type, including: one or more laser emitters, for respectively emitting at least a first laser radiation at a first predetermined power towards a first target area of the part and for emitting a second laser radiation at a second predetermined power towards a...