US Patent Issued to RTX on Dec. 2 for "Hydrogen steam injected turbine engine with turboexpander heat recovery" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,801, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Hydrogen steam injected turbine engine with turboexpander heat recovery" was invented by Neil J. Terwilliger (Cheshire, Conn.) and Joseph B. Staubach (Colchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a core engine that includes a core flow path where air is compressed in a compressor section, communicated to a combustor section, mixed with a gaseous fuel and ignited to generate an exhaust gas flow that is expanded through a turbine section. A fuel system supplies a fuel to the combustor through a fuel flow path, a first ...