ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,442, issued on July 8, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Combustor panel with rail integrated perimeter studs" was invented by Jon Sobanski (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Steven Porter (Wethersfield, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a panel for lining a combustor shell of a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a front surface configured to face a combustion chamber and a back surface configured to face the combustor shell, a plurality of cooling holes extending from the back surface to the front surface, a rail extending from the back surface and defining a perimeter of the panel, and a plurality of st...