ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,907, issued on March 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Inter-turbine burner in recuperation cycle engine" was invented by Joseph B. Staubach (Colchester, Conn.), Joseph E. Turney (Amston, Conn.) and Neil J. Terwilliger (Cheshire, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine assembly an inter-turbine burner that is disposed between at least two of a plurality of turbine stages where an additional amount of fuel is mixed with an exhaust gas flow to generate a reheated gas flow. A condenser extracts water from the reheated gas flow and an evaporator system generates a steam flow from at least a portion of wat...