US Patent Issued to General Electric on Aug. 5 for "Turbine engine with a blade assembly having cooling conduits" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,889, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine with a blade assembly having cooling conduits" was invented by Zachary R. Noeth (Loveland, Ohio), Thomas P. Warburg (West Chester, Ohio), Zachary Daniel Webster (Liberty Township, Ohio), Kelli Marie Fishback (Liberty Township, Ohio), Marie Myers (Cincinnati) and Kurt Thomas Whittington (Maineville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine having a blade assembly with a platform, an airfoil, and a shank. The airfoil has a plurality of cooling conduits, and the shank has a plurality of inlet passages to provide cooling fluid to ...