US Patent Issued to MTU Aero Engines on July 22 for "Turbomachine for an aircraft propulsion drive" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,177, issued on July 22, was assigned to MTU Aero Engines AG (Munich).

"Turbomachine for an aircraft propulsion drive" was invented by Istvan Bolgar (Sengenthal, Germany), Francois Cottier (Unterschleissheim, Germany) and Milena Fois (Saint-Egreve, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a turbomachine for a flight propulsion drive with a compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine through which a gas flow flows in the flow direction of turbomachine, and a heat exchanger downstream of the turbine, wherein the heat exchanger is equipped to generate steam from water using energy from the gas flow, which can be sup...