US Patent Issued to AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Gas turbine blade having shelf squealer tip" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,976, issued on May 27, was assigned to AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT (Daejeon, South Korea) and INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Gas turbine blade having shelf squealer tip" was invented by Jeong-Woo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyung-Hee Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Joo-Hyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Min-Ho Bang (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong-Ju Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seung-Yeong Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Tae-Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hee-Seung Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a gas turbine blade having a shelf squealer ...