US Patent Issued to RTX on July 7 for "Partial exhaust condensation regenerator" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,414, issued on July 7, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Partial exhaust condensation regenerator" was invented by Neil J. Terwilliger (Cheshire, Conn.) and Abbas A. Alahyari (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine assembly generates an exhaust gas flow that is divided into a first exhaust gas flow and a second exhaust gas flow. A desiccation system transfers water vapor from the first exhaust gas flow into the second exhaust gas flow. A condenser extracts water from the second exhaust gas flow and an evaporator system uses thermal energy from the exhaust gas flow to generate a steam flow from...