US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 16 for "Rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine" (Polish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,893, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Michal Tomasz Kuropatwa (Warsaw, Poland), Adam Wojciech Deskiewicz (Warsaw, Poland), Robert Kaminski (Warsaw, Poland), Adam Kunicki (Warsaw, Poland) and Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor assembly is provided, along with gas turbine engines for its use. The rotor assembly may include a spool defining a plurality of apertures arranged in a first row and spaced circumferentially around the spool, wherein each aperture of the plurality of apertures extends through ...