US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce on April 29 for "Turbine assembly with confronting vane and turbine shroud segment" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,885, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Turbine assembly with confronting vane and turbine shroud segment" was invented by Aaron D. Sippel (Indianapolis), David J. Thomas (Indianapolis), Ted J. Freeman (Indianapolis), Clark Snyder (Indianapolis) and Jeffrey A. Stone (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine assembly adapted for use with a gas turbine engine includes a turbine shroud assembly and a turbine vane. The turbine shroud assembly includes a carrier segment arranged circumferentially at least partway around an axis and a blade track segment supported by the carrier segment to lo...