US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce on Sept. 9 for "Turbine engine with centrifugal compressor having impeller backplate offtake" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,745, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Turbine engine with centrifugal compressor having impeller backplate offtake" was invented by Mark E. Whitlock (Zionsville, Ind.), Nathanael Cooper (Avon, Ind.), Steven Mazur (Indianapolis), Michael Nesteroff (Indianapolis) and Paul Melevage (Crawfordsville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan, a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine. The compressor compresses gases entering the gas turbine engine. The combustor receives the compressed gases from the compressor and mixes fuel with the compressed gases. The turbine receives...