US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 10 for "Cooling nozzle vanes of a turbine engine" (Florida, Maine, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,227, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Cooling nozzle vanes of a turbine engine" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Paul M. Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine), Jose R. Paulino (Jupiter, Fla.) and Robert B. Fowler (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a turbine engine includes a nozzle structure, a septum and a plurality of cooling vanes. The nozzle structure includes a first platform, a second platform and a plurality of nozzle vanes arranged circumferentially about an axis. The septum axially and circumferentially overlaps the first platform with a cool...