US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 17 for "Aircraft air system with electric boost compressor" (Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,540, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft system includes a turbine engine and an air system. The turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section. A flowpath extends through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section. A first rotating structure includes a first compressor rotor disposed in the compressor section. A second rotating structure includes a second comp...