ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,811, issued on July 15, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).
"Tile for a gas turbine engine combustor" was invented by Marcin Damian Dutka (Derby, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tile for a gas turbine engine combustor. The tile has a base that has a hot-side surface, a cold-side surface, a first circumferential extremity, a second circumferential extremity and a local radial axis. The tile also has a plurality of cooling channels that have inlets on the cold-side surface and outlets on the hot-side surface, and one or more rail structure attached to the cold-side surface of the base."
The patent was filed on Aug...