US Patent Issued to RTX on April 8 for "Partial exhaust gas condensation with inverse Brayton control" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,333, issued on April 8, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Partial exhaust gas condensation with inverse Brayton control" was invented by Neil J. Terwilliger (Cheshire, Conn.) and Lance L. Smith (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine assembly generates an exhaust gas flow that is communicated through a core flow path. The exhaust gas flow is split into a first exhaust gas flow and a second exhaust gas flow. Water is extracted in a condenser from the second exhaust gas flow. The extracted water is transformed into a steam flow in an evaporator system utilizing thermal energy from at least th...