US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for predicting the geometry and internal structure of turbine blades" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,451, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for predicting the geometry and internal structure of turbine blades" was invented by Russell Gentry (Atlanta) and Benjamin Tasistro-Hart (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment provides a method of predicting a geometry of a turbine blade, comprising: obtaining a point cloud of the turbine blade, the point cloud comprising a plurality of points corresponding to locations on an external contour of the turbine blade; generating an external mesh for the turbine blade based on point cloud; defining a reference axis...