US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy on Oct. 6 for "System and method for ultrasonic phased array inspection of integral shroud drum stage T-root blades" (Pennsylvania, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,706, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Siemens Energy Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"System and method for ultrasonic phased array inspection of integral shroud drum stage T-root blades" was invented by El Mahjoub Rasselkorde (Murrysville, Pa.), Jeremy P. Jasikiewicz (Orlando, Fla.), Larry Himes (Greensburg, Pa.) and James Alford (North Huntingdon, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nondestructive method for a volumetric examination of a blade root of a turbine blade while the turbine blade is installed in a turbine shaft of a steam turbine includes installing the bracket onto the outer diameter of the turbine shaft where the bracket confor...