US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Feb. 17 for "Thermal management system for future vertical lift aircraft" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,541, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Thermal management system for future vertical lift aircraft" was invented by Raphael Mandel (West Hartford, Conn.), Joseph E. Turney (Amston, Conn.), Ram Ranjan (San Diego) and Matthew L. Pess (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system for an aircraft includes a liquid loop, a vapor compression cycle loop, and an air loop. The liquid loop includes a pump to deliver a working fluid a cold sink for cooling a heat load with the working fluid. The vapor compression cycle loop is fluidly coupled to the liquid loop by...