US Patent Issued to RTX on June 30 for "Cyclonic separator for seal support" (Maine, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,068, issued on June 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Cyclonic separator for seal support" was invented by Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, Conn.) and Paul M. Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator system for a blade outer air seal cooling passage of a gas turbine engine includes a cooling passage defined between an engine casing on a radially outer boundary and alternating blade outer air seals and vanes on a radially inner boundary; and a support positioned along the cooling passage and dividing the cooling passage into an upstream portion and a downstream portion of the cooling pass...