ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,129, issued on April 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Attachment region for CMC components" was invented by Carson A. Roy Thill (Buxton, Maine), Thomas E. Clark (Wells, Maine), Danielle Mahoney (Dover, N.H.) and Andrew D. Keene (South Portland, Maine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a gas turbine engine includes a component body formed of ceramic matrix composite lamina and has at least one hook. The at least one hook has an attachment region radially inward of the at least one hook. The attachment region is radially thinner from a hook end of the at least one hook to a remote end, and then becomes r...