US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 1 for "Turbofan thermoelectric generation" (Ohio, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,794, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Turbofan thermoelectric generation" was invented by Ryan William Hunter (North Palm Beach, Fla.) and Brady M. Wilson (Westerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine has: a core flowpath sequentially through one or more fan sections, one or more compressor sections, a combustor section, and one or more turbine sections; a bypass flowpath extending through the one or more fan sections and bypassing the combustion section; a heat exchanger in the bypass flowpath placing a portion of the bypass flowpath in heat exchange relation with a second f...