ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,896, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Airfoil assembly with platform film holes" was invented by Kirk Douglas Gallier (Cincinnati), Zachary Daniel Webster (Cincinnati) and Brian Kenneth Corsetti (Reading, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil assembly for a turbine engine which generates a hot fluid flow and provides a cooling fluid flow. The airfoil assembly includes a platform with radially spaced upper and lower walls, the platform extending between a platform leading edge and a platform trailing edge to define an axial direction and extending between a pair of slash faces, an ai...