US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on March 24 for "Closed brayton cycle shutdown control with isolated fluid reservoir for cooling electrical components" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,067, issued on March 24, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Closed brayton cycle shutdown control with isolated fluid reservoir for cooling electrical components" was invented by Neil Backus (Indianapolis) and Michael Monzella (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 fluid control system. 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 extract wor...