US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce on July 8 for "Turbine shroud assemblies with channels for buffer cavity seal thermal management" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,176, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Turbine shroud assemblies with channels for buffer cavity seal thermal management" was invented by Ted J. Freeman (Indianapolis), Aaron D. Sippel (Indianapolis), David J. Thomas (Indianapolis) and Clark J. Snyder (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine shroud assembly adapted for use with a gas turbine engine includes a carrier segment, a blade track segment, and a seal system. The carrier segment arranged circumferentially at least partway around an axis. The blade track segment is coupled to the carrier segment and defines a portion of a gas pat...