US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 18 for "Composite airfoil assembly having a dovetail portion" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,006, issued on March 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite airfoil assembly having a dovetail portion" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Evendale, Ohio), Tod Winton Davis (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite blade assembly for a turbine engine. The composite blade assembly having a core, a first skin and a second skin. The core having a composite structure. The first skin having at least one composite ply. The second skin having at least one composite ply. The first skin having a first radiu...