US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 24 for "High pressure clearance control system for gas turbine engine" (Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,120, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"High pressure clearance control system for gas turbine engine" was invented by Enzo DiBenedetto (Berlin, Conn.) and Philip Robert Rioux (Lisbon Falls, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high pressure compressor for a gas turbine engine. The high pressure compressor including: a clearance control system, the clearance control system including: a control valve fluidly coupled to a source of bleed air of the high pressure compressor, the control valve configured for movement between a first position and a second position; an insulated pipe fluidly coupled to the...