US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 10 for "Turbine engine with composite airfoils" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,155, issued on June 10, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine with composite airfoils" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio) and Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a fan and a turbomachine defining an engine centerline. The turbomachine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow order. The turbine engine also includes a set of composite airfoils circumferentially arranged about the engine centerline. An airfoil in the set of composite airfoils including a composite portion extending...