US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on July 22 for "Composite structure for a turbine engine" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,175, issued on July 22, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite structure for a turbine engine" was invented by Ming Xie (Dayton, Ohio), Mitchell Boyer (Cincinnati), Mingchao Wang (West Chester, Ohio) and Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a composite component including an outer shell, an inner hub, and a plurality of struts connecting the outer shell and the inner hub. The method includes installing an outer shell hoop preform on a mold tooling structure, installing an inner hub hoop preform on the mold tooling structure, and inserting st...