US Patent Issued to RTX on June 10 for "Gas turbine engine vane and spar combination with variable air flow path" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,093, issued on June 10, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas turbine engine vane and spar combination with variable air flow path" was invented by Jonas Banhos (West Hartford, Conn.) and James T. Roach (Vernon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine stator vane combination includes a stator vane body having an airfoil with a leading edge, a trailing edge, a suction side and a pressure side, and having at least one internal cooling channel. The stator vane body is formed of ceramic matrix composite materials. A spar is received within the at least one cooling air channel and formed of a metal. The spa...