US Patent Issued to RTX on June 23 for "Orbital combustor fuel support architecture" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,154, issued on June 23, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Orbital combustor fuel support architecture" was invented by Lawrence Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Timothy Snyder (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Frederick Rosenberger (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor system for an aerial vehicle includes an outer liner with a first end and a second end, an inner combustor case contained within the outer liner and defining a central combustor chamber, a lumen extending into the central combustor chamber, an air flow path extending between the outer liner and the inner combustor case, an integrated air scoo...