US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Dec. 16 for "Airfoil component for turbomachine component with platform cooling using airfoil coolant" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,897, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Airfoil component for turbomachine component with platform cooling using airfoil coolant" was invented by John Ellington Greene (Greenville, S.C.), Benjamin Paul Lacy (Greer, S.C.) and Brad Wilson VanTassel (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil component includes an airfoil body having a pressure side, a suction side, a trailing edge, and an airfoil mount. A collection plenum is defined in the airfoil body and is configured to collect coolant exiting from impingement openings in an impingement member therein. Cooling passage...