ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,095, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).
"Nozzle sector" was invented by Marco Boncinelli (Florence, Italy), Simone Colantoni (Florence, Italy), Paolo Del Turco (Florence, Italy), Vincenzo Di Marco (Florence, Italy), Giacomo Ragni (Florence, Italy) and Filippo Ceccanti (Florence, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nozzle sector for a sectorized annular stator of a gas turbine, comprising an inner platform and an outer platform, said inner platform and said outer platform being substantially concentric with respect to turbine rotational axis and spaced apart from each other by at l...