US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for air particle capture in a gas turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,323, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Apparatus and method for air particle capture in a gas turbine engine" was invented by Dibesh D. Joshi (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a gas turbine engine, including: a heat shield panel attached to a combustor liner, the combustor liner having a plurality of primary apertures extending through the combustor liner and the heat shield panel having a plurality of apertures extending therethrough; an intermediary layer located between the combustor liner and the heat shield panel, the intermediary layer being spaced from the com...