ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,337, issued on May 5, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft powerplant with ventilated cable conduit" was invented by Thomas E. Clark (Wells, Maine), Murat Yazici (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Jung Muk Choe (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for an aircraft powerplant. This assembly includes an electric machine, an electric machine controller, an electric cable, a conduit and an air circuit. The electric machine controller is configured to control operation of the electric machine. The electric cable electrically couples the electric machine controller to the electric machine. The c...