US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 8 for "Bleeding core air from a turbine engine core flowpath" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,652, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Bleeding core air from a turbine engine core flowpath" was invented by Daniel B. Kupratis (Wallingford, Conn.), Christopher J. Hanlon (Sturbridge, Mass.), Steven J. Laporte (Coventry, Conn.) and Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine core includes a compressor section and a core flowpath. The compressor section includes first and second compressor rotors. The core flowpath extends across the first compressor rotor and the second compressor rotor between an inlet into the core flowpath and an exhaust from the core flowpath. A...