ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,176, issued on July 1, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).
"Rotor-blade tip including cooling configuration" was invented by Bjorn Anders (Berlin), Constantin Garske (Birkenwerder, Germany), Kay Krabiell (Hohen Neuendorf, Germany), Heiko Lammers (Leipzig, Germany), Markus Lempke (Immenstadt, Germany), Ricardo Nilsson (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Daniel Vohringer (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine rotor having an improved rotor tip, which has at least one cooling channel in the rotor blade, the cooling channel, in the region of its cuspidal point, having at least one locally limited constri...