US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Oct. 21 for "Aerodynamic turbomachine component with cooling features and method of making" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,894, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Aerodynamic turbomachine component with cooling features and method of making" was invented by Caitlin Hillary Swanson (Columbia, S.C.) and William Scott Zemitis (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine airfoil includes a trailing edge cooling hole that has an elliptical cross-sectional baseline shape. In addition, the exit passage wall leading to the trailing edge cooling hole has a surface that varies according to an exit passage profile. Applying an iterative method of embodiments can produce a final exit passage p...