US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Oct. 7 for "Method for turbine blade and assembly with dovetail arrangement for enlarged rotor groove" (American, Mexican, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,637, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Method for turbine blade and assembly with dovetail arrangement for enlarged rotor groove" was invented by Federico Cervetto (Zurich), Salvador Mata Lopez (Guanajuato, Mexico) and Steven Sebastian Burdgick (Schnectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a turbine blade assembly for a rotor groove is disclosed. A dovetail of the turbine blade includes a mounting arm and an end surface facing radially inward relative to the rotor axis. An extension insert includes a first end configured to contact the end surface of the dovetail an...