US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 25 for "Airfoil for a turbofan engine" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,875, issued on March 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Airfoil for a turbofan engine" was invented by Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil is provided defining a spanwise direction, a chordwise direction, a root end, a tip end, a leading edge end, and a trailing edge end. The airfoil includes: a leading edge extending from the leading edge end; a body extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body including a plurality of cavity walls defining a plurality of cavities, each of the plura...