US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Dec. 16 for "Turbine blade tip shroud with axially offset cutter teeth, and related surface profiles and method" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,898, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Turbine blade tip shroud with axially offset cutter teeth, and related surface profiles and method" was invented by Srinivasa Govardhan Jayana (Bangalore, India), Richard Ryan Pilson (Greer, S.C.) and William Scott Zemitis (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine blade tip shroud has a first cutter tooth extending from a tip rail from one of the upstream side and the downstream side of the tip rail and adjacent the leading edge of the body. The tip shroud also includes a second cutter tooth extending from the tip rail fro...