US Patent Issued to RTX on July 7 for "Active thermal management of fuel systems and fuel nozzles for more electric engines" (Connecticut, North Carolina, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,418, issued on July 7, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Active thermal management of fuel systems and fuel nozzles for more electric engines" was invented by Thomas Clark (Wells, Maine), Murat Yazici (Glastonbury, Conn.), Andrew Breault (Bolton, Conn.), Jeffrey Morton (Manchester, Conn.) and John Akin (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes an engine core with a compressor section, a combustion section downstream of the compressor section relative to a core flow path, and a turbine section downstream of the combustion section relative to the core flow path. A core casing extends aro...