ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,969, issued on May 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Airfoils for turbofan engines" was invented by Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), William Dwight Gerstler (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Changjie Sun (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Lana Maria Osusky (Rexford, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Airfoil include a body extending along a spanwise direction between a root end and a tip end, the body comprising a plurality of acoustic cavities each having an inlet on the airfoil; and at least one cooling channel having an inlet section an outlet section and a middle section within the ...