US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 7 for "Composite airfoil for a turbine engine" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,636, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite airfoil for a turbine engine" was invented by Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite airfoil for a turbine engine, the composite airfoil having at least one airfoil body element. The at least one airfoil body element includes a core and a composite wrap, where the composite wrap overlies at least a portion of the core. The core includes a set of composite plies."

The patent was filed on May 23, 2024, under Application No. 18/672,367.

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