US Patent Issued to RTX on June 30 for "Bearing chamber with mapped thermal heat exchange fins" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,069, issued on June 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Bearing chamber with mapped thermal heat exchange fins" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Christopher D. Ramsey (Glastonbury, Conn.), Gen Satoh (Cheshire, Conn.) and Benjamin G. Gardell (Bristol, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additively manufacturing a component is provided. The method includes generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of the component, generating a first heat map of the 3D model which is illustrative of first thermal effects the component is expected to experience during additive manufacturing, generating...