US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 17 for "Composite airfoil for a turbine engine" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,657, issued on June 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite airfoil for a turbine engine" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio) and Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite airfoil with an airfoil core and a wall surrounding the airfoil core. The wall including a first set of stacked plies including a first type of ply having directional fibers extending in a first direction, and defining at least a portion of an exterior surface, the exterior surface extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chordwise direction and between a...