US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 12 for "Additively manufactured turbine vane cluster" (Florida, Maine, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,407, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Additively manufactured turbine vane cluster" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Paul M. Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine) and Jose R. Paulino (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additively manufactured vane cluster has a platform, a shroud, and airfoils joining the platform to the shroud. The platform has openings, each opening between a respective two of the airfoils and forming accommodating differential thermal expansion of a leading end of the platform relative to a trailing end of the platform."

The patent was filed on May 17,...