US Patent Issued to RTX on April 14 for "Cooling schemes for airfoils for gas turbine engines" (Arizona, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,265, issued on April 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Cooling schemes for airfoils for gas turbine engines" was invented by Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Conn.) and David R. Pack (Gold Canyon, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Airfoils and core assemblies for such airfoils are described. The airfoils include a leading edge cavity defined, in part, by a leading edge interior rib and a trailing edge cavity defined, in part, by a trailing edge interior rib. A plurality of pressure side cavities are defined by pressure side skin cavity walls with at least one pressure side skin cavity wall not extending to the sucti...