US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 27 for "Attaching powerplant structures together using fuel injector bolts" (Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,214, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Attaching powerplant structures together using fuel injector bolts" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Jose R. Paulino (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for a powerplant. This powerplant assembly includes a first powerplant structure, a second powerplant structure and a fuel injector bolt that fastens the second powerplant structure to the first powerplant structure. The fuel injector bolt includes an injector head and an injector base. The injector head longitudinally engages the second powerplant struc...