US Patent Issued to RTX on June 2 for "Hydraulically driven de-oiler for gas turbine engines" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,394, issued on June 2, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Hydraulically driven de-oiler for gas turbine engines" was invented by Joshua Robert Seyler (Stuart, Fla.), Ryan Andrew Mitchell (Jupiter, Fla.) and Austin Finley (Hobe Sound, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulically driven de-oiler for gas turbine engines including a lubricant pumping section operatively coupled with a fuel impelling section, the lubricant pumping section and the fuel impelling section being divided by a lubricant to fuel divider; a helical sinus formed within the lubricant pumping section, the helical sinus configured to pump at least ...