US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 14 for "Composite airfoil assembly for a turbine engine" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,305, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite airfoil assembly for a turbine engine" was invented by 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 having opposite pressure and suction sides and opposite leading and trailing edges. The pressure side and the suction side extend axially between the leading edge and the trailing edge. The composite airfoil has a laminate skin that is appl...