US Patent Issued to RTX on May 12 for "Interstage seal with provision for dedicated cooling flow ingress and method" (Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,641, issued on May 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Interstage seal with provision for dedicated cooling flow ingress and method" was invented by Wintson Smiddy (South Windsor, Conn.), Alex Schneider (Manchester, Conn.), Howard Liles (Newington, Conn.), Peter Wilkins (Manchester, Conn.) and Paul Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling flow arrangement for a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component of a turbine engine, wherein the CMC component includes a hot side configured for exposure to a hot gas path of the turbine engine and an opposing cold side. At least one cavity is provided in...