US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 27 for "Bifurcated inlets for flow diverters" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,685, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Bifurcated inlets for flow diverters" was invented by Gregory M. Chere (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Simon W. Evans (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft propulsion system includes a heat exchanger assembly that is operable in a heat exchanger configuration where the exhaust gas flow is in thermal communication with a working fluid flow, a bypass configuration where the exhaust gas flow passes through the heat exchanger assembly without thermal communication with the working fluid flow, and an intermediate configuration where a first portion of...