US Patent Issued to RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 30 for "Method of inlet distortion prediction and monitoring" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,438, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method of inlet distortion prediction and monitoring" was invented by Dmitriy Sidelkovskiy (Ellington, Conn.) and Michael Murphy (Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a gas turbine engine includes calculating an inlet airflow distortion value at a reference area within an airflow duct and in front of a fan of the gas turbine engine. The inlet airflow distortion value is indicative of an air pressure of an air vortex at the reference area caused by a set of crosswind conditions. The calculating is based on a ratio between an...