ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,975, issued on May 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Component for a turbine engine with a cooling hole" was invented by Anquan Wang (Mason, Ohio), Ryan Christopher Jones (Cincinnati), Paul Christopher Schilling (Waynesville, Ohio) and Craig Alan Gonyou (Blanchester, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus relating to a component for a turbine engine which generates a hot gas fluid flow, and provides a cooling fluid flow. The component having a wall separating the hot gas fluid flow from the cooling fluid flow and having a heated surface along which the hot gas fluid flow flows and a cooled surface ...