US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 13 for "Turbine engine with composite airfoil having a non-metallic leading edge protective wrap" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,751, issued on May 13, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine with composite airfoil having a non-metallic leading edge protective wrap" was invented by Anthony Michael Gunasekera (New Richmond, Ohio), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Leslie Louis Langenbrunner (Cincinnati) and Simeon Paul Copple (Wilmington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite airfoil having a non-metallic leading edge protective wrap is provided. In one aspect, the airfoil has a composite core having a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall each extending between a core leading edge and a core trailing edge. A leadin...