US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 5 for "Airfoil-mounted acoustic resonator array for gas turbine engine component" (Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,888, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Airfoil-mounted acoustic resonator array for gas turbine engine component" was invented by Ramons A. Reba (South Windsor, Conn.), Benjamin G. Gardell (Bristol, Conn.) and Michael Raymond LaFavor (Otisfield, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine component includes an airfoil extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil has hollow cells with walls separating the plurality of hollow cells. A perforated surface has a plurality of perforations and closes off the hollow cells. The hollow cells have a diverter plate which extends a...