US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 8 for "Airfoils for gas turbine engines" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,317, issued on April 8, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Airfoils for gas turbine engines" was invented by Michael Elia Hayek (Wrentham, Mass.) and Victor Hugo Silva Correia (Milton Mills, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil for a turbine engine includes a body defining a pressure side and a suction side, the body extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge and also extending radially to define an outer edge. A radially-extending plenum can be disposed at the outer edge of the airfoil. A flared portion can be disposed at the outer edge of the body extending from the suction side."

The paten...