ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,481, issued on April 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft air system with boost compressor(s)" was invented by Murat Yazici (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Thomas E. Clark (Wells, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft system includes a turbine engine and an air system. The turbine engine includes a flowpath, a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section. The flowpath extends through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section from an airflow inlet into the flowpath to a combustion products exhaust from the flowpath. The ai...