US Patent Issued to RTX on March 31 for "Piston seal ring bypass" (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,634, issued on March 31, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Piston seal ring bypass" was invented by Calvin Jay Winder (Cromwell, Conn.), Fadi S. Maalouf (East Hampton, Conn.), Matthew E. Bintz (West Hartford, Conn.), Ryan Hamilton Quinn (Berlin, Conn.), Justin Roger Delarm (Storrs Mansfield, Conn.), Shane Tyler West (Southington, Conn.), John P. Virtue Jr. (Middletown, Conn.), David R. Lyders (Glastonbury, Conn.), Anna Lauren Wright (Poulsbo, Wash.), Kalpendu J. Parekh (Brookline, Mass.) and Pieter Van Lieu (Cheshire, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine comprising a rotor having: an inner member; an outer me...