US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on May 6 for "Method and system for repairing turbine airfoils" (Ohio, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,973, issued on May 6, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Method and system for repairing turbine airfoils" was invented by Daniel Gillaugh (Troy, Ohio), Alexander Kaszynski (Layfayette, Colo.) and Jeffrey Brown (Bellbrook, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a method and system for repairing a blade for a turbomachine that has been damaged due to foreign object impact. Machine learning algorithms are used to determine an amount of material to be removed from one or more damage locations and determine an amount o...