ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,867, issued on March 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Attachment for blade outer air seal" was invented by Joseph Micucci (Scarborough, Maine), Daniel Rogers (Lyman, Maine), Mikayla Rogers (Portland, Maine), Danielle Mahoney (Granby, Conn.) and Carson Roy Thill (Buxton, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine section for a gas turbine engine includes a turbine having at least one blade rotatable around an axis. The at least one blade has a tip. The turbine section for a gas turbine engine also includes at least one blade outer air seal arranged radially outward from the tip. The blade outer air seal has a c...