US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on April 22 for "Stator part of a turbomachine comprising a blade and a fin defining between them a decreasing surface from upstream to downstream in the gas flow direction" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,599, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Stator part of a turbomachine comprising a blade and a fin defining between them a decreasing surface from upstream to downstream in the gas flow direction" was invented by Gabriel Jacques Victor Mondin (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and William Henri Joseph Riera (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator part of a turbomachine includes a platform, a blade, and a fin. The blade and the fin extend from the platform. The platform, an extrados of the blade and the fin define therebetween a gas flow channel. The channel has a section in a plane normal to an axis o...