US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 4 for "Gas turbine engine with improved high pressure compressor leakage path guide structure" (Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,901, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas turbine engine with improved high pressure compressor leakage path guide structure" was invented by William K. Ackermann (East Hartford, Conn.), Andrew E. Breault (Bolton, Conn.), Thomas E. Clark (Wells, Maine) and Daniel B. Kupratis (Wallingford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine having an axial centerline is provided that includes compressor, combustor, and turbine sections, a tangential on board injector (TOBI) system, and an HPC leakage guide structure. The compressor section has a high pressure compressor (HPC) that includes an HPC ...