US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 9 for "Rotor blade system for turbine engines" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,715, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Rotor blade system for turbine engines" was invented by Keegan Nathaniel Mehrtens (Peabody, Mass.), Yoon Seok Choi (Kenwood, Ohio), Ramakrishna Mallina (Mason, Ohio) and Robert Bruce Dickman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor blade system for a turbine engine having a longitudinal centerline axis. The rotor blade system includes a rotor configured to rotate about the longitudinal centerline axis and a plurality of rotor blades coupled circumferentially around the rotor, each rotor blade having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a suction si...