US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 4 for "Turbine engine with a composite-airfoil assembly having a dovetail portion" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,383, issued on March 4, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine with a composite-airfoil assembly having a dovetail portion" was invented by Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen (Cincinnati), Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Michael John Franks (Cincinnati) and Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine having a disk, a composite airfoil assembly and a pitch snubber. The disk having a slot. The composite airfoil assembly having an airfoil portion and a dovetail portion. The dovetail ...