US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 10 for "Aircraft engine entrained particle removal system and method" (Rhode Island Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,254, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft engine entrained particle removal system and method" was invented by JinQuan Xu (East Greenwich, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of directing particles entrained within an airflow disposed to enter a gas turbine engine of an aircraft is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a nose cone, a fan section, a compressor inlet, a compressor section, and a turbine section. The nose cone is fixed for rotation with the fan section. The method includes: providing an entrained particle removal (EPR) system configured to inject a fluid outward from t...