ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,598, issued on April 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Ceramic matrix composite component manufacturing" was invented by Johnnattan Tennessee Ugarte (Loveland, Ohio) and Nolan Leander Cousineau (West Chester, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a stage of airfoil segments having a first ceramic matrix composite (CMC) airfoil segment, the first CMC airfoil segment includes: an end band having a radial surface defining a cold side surface area, ACS; and an airfoil coupled to or formed with the end band, the airfoil and the end band defining a joi...