US Patent Issued to RTX on April 29 for "Layout for asymmetric cast trips in long passages" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,898, issued on April 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Layout for asymmetric cast trips in long passages" was invented by Tyler G. Vincent (Portland, Conn.) and Joshua William Owen Richards (Manchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layout for asymmetric trip strips including a flow passage having a lower wall and an upper wall opposite the lower wall, each of the lower wall and the upper wall including an inner surface, the flow passage having a passage inlet and a length L and a diameter d; multiple skewed trip strips extending from at least one inner surface of the lower wall or the upper wall; and at lea...