US Patent Issued to RTX on July 29 for "Cooling arrangement for gas turbine engine component" (Connecticut, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,997, issued on July 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Cooling arrangement for gas turbine engine component" was invented by Emma J. Place (New Hartford, Conn.), Christopher J. Peters (Los Lunas, N.M.), Jeffrey J. DeGray (Somers, Conn.), Dominic J. Mongillo (West Hartford, Conn.), Timothy J. Jennings (New Britain, Conn.), Raymond Surace (Newington, Conn.) and Jeremy B. Fredette (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casting core assembly for a gas turbine engine component according to an implementation includes a skin core corresponding to a first cooling passage of an airfoil. The first cooling passa...