US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 1 for "Monolithic composite blade and platform" (Ohio, California, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,597, issued on April 1, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Monolithic composite blade and platform" was invented by Gregory Carl Gemeinhardt (Park Hills, Ky.), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio) and Andreas Mastorakis (Corona, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a gas turbine engine. The component includes a continuous fiber blade including an airfoil extending radially between a root and a tip and a blade attachment feature positioned at or adjacent to the root. The component further includes a platform coupled to the root of the continuous fiber blade. The platform includes a plurality of chop...