US Patent Issued to RTX on Dec. 16 for "Air cooling system for stator vane structure outer platform" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,895, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Air cooling system for stator vane structure outer platform" was invented by David R. Griffin (Tolland, Conn.) and Charles T. Slayden (Vernon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a turbine engine includes a vane structure, a wall and an air delivery device. The vane structure includes an inner platform, an outer platform and a plurality of vanes arranged circumferentially about an axis. The inner platform extends circumferentially about the axis and forms an inner peripheral boundary of a flowpath through the vane structure. The outer platform ex...