US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Integrated bypass duct heat exchanger" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,382, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Integrated bypass duct heat exchanger" was invented by Kerry J. Lighty (Plainfield, Ind.) and Douglas J. Snyder (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a bypass duct including an outer wall, a flow wall arranged within the bypass duct so as to bifurcate a flow path of the bypass duct into radially outer and inner flow paths, and a heat exchanger. The outer wall includes a segmented wall portion that is removable from the outer wall. The heat exchanger is arranged within the radially outer flow path ...