US Patent Issued to GE Avio, General Electric on Sept. 23 for "Turbine engine with reduced cross flow airfoils" (Italian, Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,853, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GE Avio S.r.l. (Turin, Italy) and General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Turbine engine with reduced cross flow airfoils" was invented by Saurya Ranjan Ray (Karnataka, India), Francesco Bertini (Rivalto di Torino, Italy), Lyle Douglas Dailey (Maineville, Ohio), Jeffrey D. Clements (Mason, Ohio), Jaikumar Loganathan (Karnataka, India) and Simone Rosa Taddei (Collegno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil assembly has a platform and an airfoil. The platform has an upstream edge, a downstream edge, and a surface extending between the upstream edge and the downstream edge. At least...