US Patent Issued to RTX on March 17 for "Cooled variable area nozzle for an aircraft engine" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,092, issued on March 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Cooled variable area nozzle for an aircraft engine" was invented by Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for an aircraft engine. This apparatus includes a variable area nozzle. The variable area nozzle includes a nozzle wall, a nozzle sleeve, an actuation system and a flowpath extending axially along an axis through the variable area nozzle and radially between the nozzle wall and the nozzle sleeve. The nozzle sleeve includes a shell, a liner, a cooling cavity and an ejector. The shell extends axially alon...