US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 30 for "Turbine engine with a blade assembly having a set of cooling conduits" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,991, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

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

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, a...