ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,973, issued on May 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).
"Airfoil joining apparatus and methods" was invented by Suhas Prabhakar Vaze (Loveland, Ohio), Timothy Trapp (Cincinnati), Scott Sager Campbell (Columbus, Ohio), Gregory Christopher Firestone (Pickerington, Ohio), Jonathan David Mast (Lebanon, Ohio) and Timothy Vernon Stotler (Columbus, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil component for attaching to a cropped airfoil is provided. The cropped airfoil comprises a cropped airfoil attachment section and a cropped first side opposite a cropped second side, which each extend axially between a cropped...