ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,023, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Fan case mounted evaporator for aircraft turbine engine" was invented by Jesse M. Chandler (S. Windsor, Conn.) and Gregory M. Chere (Glastonbury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft propulsion system includes an exhaust duct that defines a flow path for the exhaust gas flow to a condenser assembly, and an evaporator system where heat from the exhaust gas flow is used to transform water from the condenser assembly into a steam flow for injection into the core engine. The evaporator system includes at least one heat exchanger stage that is mounted to t...