ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,425, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Rotor containment structure" was invented by Mark R. Gurvich (Middletown, Conn.), Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.) and Christopher Simpson (West Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shroud reinforcement is provided for a shroud that is coaxial with and partially surrounds a rotor and that includes tubular and flange sections and a transition section axially interposed between the tubular and flange sections. The shroud reinforcement includes first fiber-reinforced polymer-matrix composite reinforcement elements with fibers extending alon...