US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 27 for "Regenerative cooling and adjustable throat for rotating detonation engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,814, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Regenerative cooling and adjustable throat for rotating detonation engine" was invented by Christopher Britton Greene (Hebron, Conn.), James M. Donohue (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Peter AT Cocks (South Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a rotating detonation engine, having a radially outer wall extending along an axis; a radially inner wall extending along the axis, wherein the radially inner wall is positioned within the radially outer wall to define an annular detonation chamber having an inlet and an outlet, wherein the metho...