ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,902, issued on April 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Turbomachine cooling trench" was invented by Daniel Endecott Osgood (Loveland, Ohio), Zachary Daniel Webster (Cincinnati), Gregory Terrence Garay (West Chester, Ohio) and Kevin Robert Feldmann (Mason, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a turbine engine includes a body with an exterior surface abutting a combustion flowpath for a combustion gas flow through the turbine engine, a cooling passage defined within the body, and a trench on the exterior surface. The trench includes a plurality of outlets, and a plurality of cooling holes extendi...