US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 11 for "PTMS thermal bus vapor cycle architecture" (Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,093, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"PTMS thermal bus vapor cycle architecture" was invented by Orin G. Avidane (Lighthouse Point, Fla.), Javier A. Cue (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) and Nathan A. Snape (Tolland, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power and thermal management system thermal bus vapor cycle architecture including a bypass duct formed between a gas turbine inner fan duct and a gas turbine outer fan duct; a condenser coil located within the bypass duct, the condenser coil being configured as an annulus disk shape heat exchanger; at least one evaporator coil fluidly coupled to the conde...