ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,649, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).
"Gas turbine nozzles with cooling holes and turbine" was invented by Luca Andrei (Florence, Italy), Irene Cresci (Florence, Italy), Simone Cubeda (Florence, Italy), Fabrizio Paone (Florence, Italy) and Girolamo Tripoli (Florence, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The nozzle segment for a gas turbine comprises an inner platform and an outer platform as well as a plurality of airfoils arranged between the inner platform and the outer platform. A set of platform film cooling holes are provided, including at least one inner platform film cooling...