ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,585, issued on July 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Dual pin support for blade outer air seal and method" was invented by Christian X Campbell (West Hartford, Conn.) and Cheng Gao (South Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic matrix composite (CMC) blade outer air seal (BOAS) assembly includes a CMC BOAS including a base and a pair of rails having a substantially Pi-shaped cross-section. The pair of rails include a first pair of aligned holes at a first end and second pair of aligned holes at a second end. A first pair of parallel metallic pins have a first end connected to a first central sup...