US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 13 for "Turbine engine structure with an integral fluid reservoir" (Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,156, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Turbine engine structure with an integral fluid reservoir" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Jose R. Paulino (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for a turbine engine includes a monolithic engine structure. The monolithic body structure includes an inner case, an outer case, a plurality of vanes, a flowpath, a reservoir cavity and a plurality of feed passages. The inner case extends axially along and circumferentially around an axis. The inner case forms an inner boundary of the flowpath in the monolithic engine stru...