US Patent Issued to General Electric on Nov. 25 for "Cold spray duct for a gas turbine engine" (Massachusetts, Ohio, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,417, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Cold spray duct for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis (Winchester, Mass.), Eric Dean Jorgensen (Upton, Mass.), Craig Douglas Young (Blanchester, Ohio), Jonathan Harry Kerner (Brookline, Mass.) and Leonardo Ajdelsztajn (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a turbine engine may be formed by spraying particulate with a nozzle toward a substrate. The particulate may be deposited to form one or more annular layers and a reinforcing structure. The component may be a closed loop annular component having a...