US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 25 for "Turbine vane for a gas turbine engine" (Puerto Rico, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,406, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Turbine vane for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Jaime G. Ghigliotty Rosado (Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico) and Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine vane includes a vane body, a baffle, and a plurality of axial divider ribs. The vane body includes a first side wall, a second side wall, and a trailing edge rib forming a cooling passage. The baffle includes a baffle body disposed within the cooling passage. The baffle body includes a first baffle side and a second baffle side. The baffle body forms an internal baffle cavity. Th...