US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 3 for "Integrally cooled optical probe" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,198, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Integrally cooled optical probe" was invented by Bryan J. Hackett (Berlin, Conn.), Hunter Tomick (Lebanon, Conn.) and Eli Warren (Wethersfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing for internal components of an optical probe is provided. The housing includes a housing body including an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface. The housing body is elongated along a center longitudinal axis from a proximal end to a distal end. The inner surface defines and annularly surrounds a cavity that is open at the proximal end and closed at the d...