US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 20 for "Additively manufactured turbine engine case with fuel manifold" (Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,337, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Additively manufactured turbine engine case with fuel manifold" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Yoel Bugin (Port St. Lucie, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine case structure includes the unitary combination of: a case wall having an inner surface and an outer surface; at least one fuel inlet; circumferentially-distributed fuel injectors protruding inward from the case wall and having an outlet; a fuel plenum fluidically between the at least one fuel inlet and the fuel injectors and configured so that each inlet of ...