ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,174, issued on July 8, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Fan retention member for supporting a blade platform of a fan assembly" was invented by Vaishnav Raghuvaran (Bengaluru, India), Bhaskar Nanda Mondal (Bengaluru, India) and Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan assembly includes a disk having a disk forward surface, a disk aft surface, and a radially outer surface. The disk defines a plurality of disk posts and a plurality of disk slots in the radially outer surface. At least one of the plurality of disk posts includes a post slot. The fan assembly also includes a fan h...