US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Closed Brayton cycle power generation system with compressor discharge fluid driven cooling flow for cooling electrical hardware" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,956, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Closed Brayton cycle power generation system with compressor discharge fluid driven cooling flow for cooling electrical hardware" was invented by Neil Backus (Indianapolis) and Stanford Clemens (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power-generation system includes an electrical system, a turbine engine, and a pump. The turbine engine includes a compressor configured to receive and compress a working fluid, a heat source that transfers heat to the compressed working fluid, a turbine fluidly connected with the compressor to ex...