US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on March 18 for "Rotating airfoil with a spring damper system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,005, issued on March 18, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Rotating airfoil with a spring damper system" was invented by Abhijeet Yadav (Bengaluru, India), Nicholas J. Kray (Mason, Ohio) and Nitesh Jain (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil structure including an airfoil and a spring and damper system. The airfoil including a longitudinal axis. The spring and damper system is connected to the airfoil to rotate the airfoil about the longitudinal axis to change airfoil pitch in response to a load applied to the airfoil."

The patent was filed on Oct. 14, 2022, under Application No. 18/04...