US Patent Issued to RTX on May 26 for "Turbine blade for a gas turbine engine and method for forming same" (Arizona, Oregon, Tennessee, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,950, issued on May 26, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Turbine blade for a gas turbine engine and method for forming same" was invented by David E. Gambardella (Tucson, Ariz.), Jaime G. Ghigliotty Rosado (Cabo Rojo, Ore.), Benjamin B. Simpson (Rogersville, Tenn.) and Dominic J. Mongillo Jr. (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil body. The airfoil body includes a pressure side wall, a suction side wall, and a tip end wall. The tip end wall forms a blade tip. The airfoil body forms a plurality of suction side wall passages and a main body cavity. The suct...