ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,309, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Nozzle assembly for turbine engine" was invented by Paul Hadley Vitt (Liberty Township, Ohio), Wilson Frost (Cincinnati) and Mark Broomer (Lynn, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for a nozzle assembly for a turbine engine and a method of forming the nozzle assembly are described herein. The nozzle assembly can include a set of nozzles including an inner band an outer band, with one or more airfoils extending between the inner and outer bands. The nozzles can be coupled to adjacent nozzles at the inner and outer bands to form the nozzle ass...