US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Oct. 6 for "Additively manufactured heat exchanger and diffuser pipe coupled to a compressor stage" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,921, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Additively manufactured heat exchanger and diffuser pipe coupled to a compressor stage" was invented by Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.) and Brent J. Merritt (Southwick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft system having an impeller housing, an impeller housed within the impeller housing, wherein the impeller housing extends from an inlet end and to an outlet end, wherein the outlet end defines circumferentially distributed radially facing outlet ports, wherein in operation an airflow moves along a first axial direction into the inlet end ...