ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,891, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Turbine engine airfoil with a woven core" was invented by Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Elzbieta Kryj-Kos (Liberty Township, Ohio), Michael John Franks (Cincinnati) and Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan section, a compressor section, combustor section, and turbine section in serial flow arrangement, and defining an engine longitudinal axis. Sets of blades can be rotatably driven about the longitudinal axis in the fan section, the compressor section, and the turbine section. The ...