US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 20 for "Composite airfoil assembly and method of forming a composite airfoil assembly" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,614, issued on May 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite airfoil assembly and method of forming a composite airfoil assembly" was invented by Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Liberty Township, Ohio), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Tod Winton Davis (Cincinnati) and Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite airfoil assembly for a gas turbine engine. The composite airfoil assembly includes a composite airfoil defined by a core and a skin. The composite airfoil assembly further includes cladding. The core defines a core exterior, where the skin is applied to at least a porti...