ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,721, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Stator retention of gas turbine engine" was invented by Sarah J. Zecha (Farmington, Conn.) and Brian Barainca (Farmington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator vane assembly of a gas turbine engine includes a stator shroud having a plurality of shroud openings formed therein. The stator shroud defines a flowpath surface. The assembly includes a plurality of stator vanes, one stator vane of the plurality of stator vanes installed in each shroud opening of the stator shroud. A volume of potting material is located in the plurality of shroud openings to retai...