US Patent Issued to RTX on June 24 for "Casting core post and socket joint" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,378, issued on June 24, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Casting core post and socket joint" was invented by Anthony J. Del Boccio (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casting core assembly has: a first ceramic piece including a projecting post; a second ceramic piece including a socket; and a ceramic filler material between the post and the socket. In transverse section at at least one location one of the post and socket has a configuration of: three circumferentially offset radial peaks of a peak radius (RPMAX, RSMAX); and three radial troughs of a trough radius (RPMIN, RSMIN) not more than 98.0% of...