US Patent Issued to General Electric, GE Avio on June 24 for "Aerodynamically mistuned airfoils for unsteady loss reduction" (Italian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,746, issued on June 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.) and GE Avio S.r.l. (Turin, Italy).

"Aerodynamically mistuned airfoils for unsteady loss reduction" was invented by Francesco Bertini (Turin, Italy), Davide Torzo (Turin, Italy), Pratish Patil (Bengaluru, India), John Joseph (Bengaluru, India), Mahendran Manoharan (Bengaluru, India) and Ganesh Seshadri (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aerodynamically mistuned airfoils for unsteady loss reductions are disclosed herein. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a disk, a first airfoil coupled to the disk, the first airfoil having a firs...