US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce on Nov. 25 for "Gas turbine engine component with variable cooling hole geometry" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,407, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Rolls-Royce PLC (London).

"Gas turbine engine component with variable cooling hole geometry" was invented by Christopher Neale (Bristol, Great Britain) and James R. Kingsley-Rowe (Bath, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine component that has a web provided with an array of cooling holes distributed with respect to a first direction, wherein the cooling holes have a cross-sectional shape that varies along the first direction. The component may be configured so that the first direction corresponds to a loading distribution of the component which increases along the fi...