US Patent Issued to RTX on June 23 for "Combustor-vane interface feather seal" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,945, issued on June 23, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Combustor-vane interface feather seal" was invented by Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Rocky Hill, Conn.), Steven D. Porter (Wethersfield, Conn.) and Caroline Karanian (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a combustor disposed about an engine central axis and a circumferential row of vanes adjacent an exit region of the combustor. The combustor includes a combustor wall and a combustion chamber. The combustor wall has a lip at the exit region. Each vane includes a platform and an airfoil section extending from the platfor...