US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 19 for "Turbine engine support structure with airflow ports" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,489, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Turbine engine support structure with airflow ports" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Jesse R. Boyer (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This engine assembly includes a combustor, an engine case, a support structure and a monolithic body. The combustor includes a combustor wall and a combustion chamber within the combustor. The combustor wall forms a peripheral boundary of the combustion chamber. The engine case forms a peripheral boundary of a plenum along the combustor. The su...