US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Oct. 21 for "Turbine blade and method for producing a turbine blade" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,895, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Turbine blade and method for producing a turbine blade" was invented by Raphael Oberlin (Wesel, Germany) and Ulrich Stanka (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine blade having an aerofoil, wherein the aerofoil extends along a longitudinal axis, and having a blade tip, wherein, at the blade tip, a lower V limb of an element of V-shaped cross section extends transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis from a leading edge to a trailing edge, and having an upper V limb which has an outer surface, wherein the longit...