US Patent Issued to RTX on March 17 for "Methods and systems for starting hydrogen powered gas generators" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,914, issued on March 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Methods and systems for starting hydrogen powered gas generators" was invented by Marc J. Muldoon (Marlborough, Conn.) and Carroll V. Sidwell (Wethersfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aircraft hydrogen fuel systems and methods and systems of starting such systems are described. The aircraft hydrogen fuel systems include a hydrogen burning main engine, a main tank configured to contain liquid hydrogen to be supplied to the main engine during a normal operation, and a starter tank configured to contain gaseous hydrogen to be used during a startup operat...