ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,015, issued on July 28, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Combustor liner having cooling ring with fin having space filling curve" was invented by Lawrence Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Frederick Rosenberger (Marlborough, Conn.) and Mark Rohrer (West Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor liner for a gas turbine engine, the combustor liner defining a combustion chamber, includes a curved body and a cooling ring. The curved body includes a closed forward end, an open aft end opposite the forward end, an inner wall, and an outer wall radially outward from the inner wall, the outer wall defining an outer ...