ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,182, issued on July 8.
"Turbine blade inner rib profile" was invented by Dallin T Hall (Greenville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine blade has an airfoil having a rib separating a portion of an internal space defined between suction and pressure sides and leading and trailing edges thereof into at least two internal channels. The airfoil also has a platform. A portion of the rib has a shape having a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in TABLE I. The Cartesian coordinate values are non-dimensional values of from 0% to 100% convertible to distances by multipl...