US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 10 for "Steam turbine bypass for increased water heat absorption capacity steam injected turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,250, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Steam turbine bypass for increased water heat absorption capacity steam injected turbine engine" was invented by Neil J. Terwilliger (Cheshire, Conn.) and Joseph E. Turney (Amston, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine assembly includes a core engine that generates an exhaust gas flow, a condenser where water is extracted from the exhaust gas flow, an evaporator where heat is input into the water that is extracted by the condenser to generate a first steam flow, a first steam turbine where the first steam flow is expanded and cooled to generate a ...