US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 25 for "Insertion of ceramic members for gas path endwall contouring" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,412, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Insertion of ceramic members for gas path endwall contouring" was invented by Alex J. Schneider (Manchester, Conn.), Peter Hansen Wilkins (Manchester, Conn.) and Howard J. Liles (Newington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endwall assembly for an airfoil of a gas turbine engine includes a first fiber layer, a second fiber layer forming a gas path surface, and a contoured insert disposed between the first and second fiber layers, wherein the second fiber layer conforms to a contoured surface of the contoured insert such that the contoured surface defines a ...