ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,918, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Turbine engine with inverse Brayton cycle" was invented by Neil J. Terwilliger (Cheshire, Conn.) and Joseph B. Staubach (Colchester, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine system includes a turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor section having a burner, a turbine section, and a nozzle in an open-loop configuration. The engine system also includes a bottom-cycle apparatus and an exhaust heat exchanger downstream of the turbine section of the turbine engine configured to reject heat from the turbine engine to the bottoming-cycle apparatu...