ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,181, issued on July 8, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Turbine airfoils" was invented by Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), Nikolai N. Pastouchenko (Latham, N.Y.), Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Thomas William Vandeputte (Scotia, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine airfoil is provided. The turbine airfoil defines a chord line, a spanwise direction, a span along the spanwise direction, and a midpoint along the spanwise direction. The turbine airfoil includes a pressure side and a suction side. The pressure side and the suction side intersecting at a leading edge and a trailing edge. The...