US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 24 for "Fan exit guide vane thermal management system for conventional gas turbine engines" (Maine, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,126, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Fan exit guide vane thermal management system for conventional gas turbine engines" was invented by Murat Yazici (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Thomas E. Clark (Wells, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a fan exit guide vane located aft of a rotor fan. The fan exit guide vane defines a first channel for a fluid from a thermal management system and a second channel therein for receiving bleed air from a low-pressure compressor. An inlet connects to a first end of the first channel to receive the fluid. An outlet connected to a second end of the first...