ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,403, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).
"Loading vanes onto a wheel" was invented by Nicolas Pierre Dylewski (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Nathan Schaal (Moissy-Cramayel, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for loading blades onto a wheel by an articulated arm, including determining a list of blades which are intended to succeed one another along a guideway of the wheel in the order of this list, in a predefined direction of rotation from a notch until returning to this notch, such that the list has a predefined number of blades at a first end, termed first end blades, and a predefined numb...