US Patent Issued to RTX on July 22 for "Method to tie composite vane platform and airfoil design details" (Connecticut, California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,633, issued on July 22, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method to tie composite vane platform and airfoil design details" was invented by James T. Roach (Vernon, Conn.), Jenkins V. Cruz (San Diego), Addison Williams (Escondido, Calif.), Daniel Ip (Carlsbad, Calif.), Rutva A. Patel (Middletown, Conn.), Jonathan L. Chin (Cary, N.C.) and Brian Cronin (Manchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) vane including an inner diameter platform, an outer diameter platform, and an airfoil extending between the inner diameter platform and the outer diameter platform includes...