Patent 11499433 was granted and assigned to General Electric Company on November, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A turbine engine airfoil and method of cooling includes an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The airfoil can also include at least one cooling conduit and an impingement zone located within the at least one cooling conduit.