ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,406, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Airfoil assembly having an airfoil and a spar" was invented by Ming Xie (Beavercreek, Ohio), Mitchell Harold Boyer (Cincinnati) and Tod Winton Davis (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil assembly for a turbine engine. The airfoil assembly has an airfoil, and a spa. The airfoil has a wall bounding an interior and defining an exterior surface. The wall extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chordwise direction, and between a root and a tip to define a spanwise direction. The spar includes a centerline axis, the spar e...