US Patent Issued to RTX on July 14 for "Cryogenic fuel boil off powered fuel cell" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,553, issued on July 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Cryogenic fuel boil off powered fuel cell" was invented by Neil J. Terwilliger (Cheshire, Conn.) and Marc J. Muldoon (Marlborough, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryogenic fueled aircraft propulsion system includes a core engine where fuel is mixed with compressed air and ignited to generate a high energy exhaust gas flow, a fuel system that is configured to supply the fuel to the core engine, a cryogenic fuel tank for storing fuel cryogenically in a liquid phase, a gas collection system where boil off gas from the fuel system is collected, a fuel cell sy...