US Patent Issued to General Electric, General Electric Deutschland Holding on Feb. 3 for "Gas turbine engines including splittered airfoils" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,551, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Gas turbine engines including splittered airfoils" was invented by Ramakrishna Venkata Mallina (Mason, Ohio), Anthony Louis DiPietro Jr. (Evendale, Ohio), Gregory John Kajfasz (Evendale, Ohio), David Paul Lurie (Evendale, Ohio), Rudolf K. Selmeier (Fahrenzhausen, Germany), Benjamin Walther (Garching, Germany), Christofer Mathias Kendall-Torry (Garching, Germany), Taylan Ercan (Garching, Germany) and Sungho Yoon (Garching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor section for a gas ...