ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,742, issued on April 7, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Turbine component with a thin interior partition" was invented by Dilip M. Shah (Glastonbury, Conn.), Alan D. Cetel (West Hartford, Conn.), Venkatarama K. Seetharaman (Rocky Hill, Conn.) and Raymond Surace (Newington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow turbine airfoil or a hollow turbine casting including a cooling passage partition. The cooling passage partition is formed from a single crystal grain structure nickel based super alloy, a cobalt based super alloy, a nickel-aluminum based alloy, or a coated refractory metal."
The patent was filed on Sep...