US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on June 17 for "Vane assemblies with overlapping band couplings in gas turbine engines" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,660, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Vane assemblies with overlapping band couplings in gas turbine engines" was invented by Christopher J. Schubert (Indianapolis), Robert W. Heeter (Indianapolis) and Jonathan M. Rivers (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vane assembly adapted for a gas turbine engine includes a first vane segment that extends circumferentially about an axis and a second vane segment. The second vane segment includes a band that extends circumferentially about the axis and a plurality of vanes coupled to the band extending radially from the b...