US Patent Issued to RTX on July 21 for "Combustor case arrangement" (Connecticut, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,298, issued on July 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Combustor case arrangement" was invented by Lawrence Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Frederick Rosenberger (Marlborough, Conn.), Jaime Antonio Arbona (Winter Garden, Fla.) and Timothy Snyder (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor liner disposed about an axis and defining a combustion chamber and an outer case disposed about the combustor liner and defining an air flow duct therebetween. The combustor liner includes an outer wall having a plurality of mounting bosses and a plurality of firs...