US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 29 for "Turbine engine including a composite airfoil assembly having a dovetail portion" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,903, issued on April 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine including a composite airfoil assembly having a dovetail portion" was invented by Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen (Cincinnati), Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio), Michael John Franks (Cincinnati), Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Liberty Township, Ohio), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio) and Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine having a disk and a composite airfoil assembly. The disk having a slot. The composite airfoil assembly having an airfoil portion, a dovetail portion, and a roll snubber. The dove...