US Patent Issued to RTX on July 21 for "Separating airflows within a turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,296, issued on July 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Separating airflows within a turbine engine" was invented by Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, Conn.) and Daniel B. Kupratis (Wallingford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This assembly includes an engine core extending along an axis. The engine core includes a compressor section, a combustor, a diffuser structure, a diffuser plenum and a separator. The combustor is arranged within the diffuser plenum. The combustor includes a combustion chamber and a combustor wall between the combustion chamber and the diffuser ple...