US Patent Issued to RTX on May 6 for "Combustor liner with pattern of voids in CMC fiber ply for cooling channels" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,193, issued on May 6, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Combustor liner with pattern of voids in CMC fiber ply for cooling channels" was invented by Jonas Banhos (West Hartford, Conn.), James T. Roach (Vernon, Conn.), Russell Kim (Temecula, Calif.) and Raymond Surace (Newington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor includes a combustion chamber and a liner that bounds at least a portion of the combustion chamber. The liner includes a first side facing the combustion chamber and a second side facing away from the combustion chamber. The liner is formed of a lay-up of ceramic matrix composite (CMC) plies that ...