US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 8 for "Hybrid ignitor" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,662, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Hybrid ignitor" was invented by Timothy S. Snyder (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid ignitor including an ignitor body with an ignitor wall defining an ignitor interior and an ignitor exterior, the ignitor body having an electrode end opposite a discharge end; a central electrode disposed within the ignitor interior, the central electrode including a spark end; a ground electrode disposed within the ignitor interior and electrically coupled with the central electrode near the spark end; an air inlet formed in the ignitor wall near the spa...