US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 7 for "Composite casing for a turbine engine" (Turkish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,647, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite casing for a turbine engine" was invented by Ming Xie (Dayton, Ohio) and Isak Varol (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casing for a turbine engine including a composite section. The composite section has (i) an arcuate shape or an annular shape and (ii) a circumferential direction. The composite section includes a matrix and a plurality of circumferential reinforcing fiber tows embedded in the matrix. Each circumferential reinforcing fiber tow of the plurality of circumferential reinforcing fiber tows extends in the circumferential directi...