US Patent Issued to RTX on April 22 for "Turbine blade with boomerang shaped wall cooling passages" (Puerto Rico, Arizona, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,595, issued on April 22, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Turbine blade with boomerang shaped wall cooling passages" was invented by Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Conn.), David R. Pack (Gold Canyon, Ariz.) and Jaime G. Ghigliotty Rosado (Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine component includes a body having a pair of spaced walls, with at least one of the walls for facing a fluid flow when mounted in a gas turbine engine. There are a plurality of wall cooling passages having a generally boomerang shape such that a peak apex is spaced from the wall and an indent apex is adjacent to the wall, with...