US Patent Issued to General Electric, GE Aviation Systems on Jan. 27 for "Airfoil assembly" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,009, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evandale, Ohio) and GE Aviation Systems Ltd. (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

"Airfoil assembly" was invented by Nicholas J. Kray (Mason, Ohio), Richard Eugene Klaassen (West Chester, Ohio), Luc The Nguyen (West Chester, Ohio), Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Tod W. Davis (Cincinnati), Gary W. Bryant (Loveland, Ohio), Pawel Pres (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Joshua Wood (Gloucester, Great Britain) and James Alexander Trevarthen (Aldeburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil assembly having a trunnion and a spar. The trunnion having an inner surface defi...