ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,295, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Arcuate seed casting method" was invented by Dilip M. Shah (Glastonbury, Conn.), Shiela R. Woodard (South Windsor, Conn.), Steven J. Bullied (Pomfret, Conn.) and Ryan C. Breneman (Newington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casting method includes: forming a seed, the seed having a first end and a second end, the forming including bending a seed precursor; placing the seed second end in contact or spaced facing relation with a chill plate; contacting the first end with molten material; and cooling and solidifying the molten material so that a crystalline stru...