ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,900, issued on April 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Rotor blade and gas turbine provided therewith" was invented by Susumu Wakazono (Tokyo) and Satoshi Hada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor blade including: a blade body extending in a blade height direction that is a direction perpendicular to an airfoil cross-section; and a platform provided to an end at a hub side, from between a tip side and the hub side which are of the blade height direction. The blade body includes: an anterior edge and a posterior edge; a ventral surface and a dorsal surface linking the anterior edge and the posterio...