US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for starting a gas turbine engine" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,684, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for starting a gas turbine engine" was invented by Robert Bruce Fowler (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method is provided during which a plurality of start parameters for a gas turbine engine are determined. A first of the start parameters is indicative of a temperature of air at an inlet into the gas turbine engine. A second of the start parameters is indicative of a pressure of the air at the inlet. Rotation of a rotating assembly of the gas turbine engine is driven. The rotating assembly includes a compressor roto...