ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,974, issued on May 6, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evandale, Ohio) and GE Marmara Technology Center Muhendislik Hizmetleri Ltd (Gebze, Turkey).

"Turbine engine having an airfoil assembly with a trunnion and a spar" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Nicholas Mark Daggett (Camden, Maine), Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Liberty Township, Ohio), Necip Adali (Istanbul), Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen (Cincinnati), Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio) and Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine including a fan section, a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine sec...