US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 10 for "Gas turbine engine fuel injector with multiple fuel circuits" (Connecticut, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,469, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas turbine engine fuel injector with multiple fuel circuits" was invented by Timothy S. Snyder (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Brandon Williams (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This assembly includes a fuel injector. The fuel injector includes a nozzle and a plurality of discrete fuel circuits. The discrete fuel circuits include a first fuel circuit, a second fuel circuit and a third fuel circuit. The nozzle extends axially along an axis to a nozzle tip. The first fuel circuit includes a first fuel outlet ...