US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Feb. 18 for "Engine fuel nozzle degradation tracking" (North Carolina, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,080, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Engine fuel nozzle degradation tracking" was invented by Sachin Ramprashad (West Hartford, Conn.) and Eric Briggs (Indian Trail, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a burn flow line and a flow divider valve in fluid communication with the burn flow line to split flow from the burn flow line to a primary line and to a secondary line for supplying fuel to a set of primary engine nozzles and to a set of secondary engine nozzles, respectively. A sensor operatively connected to the flow divider valve to produce a feedback signal indicat...