ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,036, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Engine-integrated heat exchanger" was invented by Sherman Shoak Man Ho (Manchester, Conn.), Andrew James Iezzi (Haddam, Conn.), Stephen H. Mattia (East Haddam, Conn.) and Barbara Mary Krupczak (West Springfield, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A craft has: a body including an engine bay; and an engine having an installed condition at least partially in the engine bay. The engine has a heat exchanger having an inlet manifold; and in the installed condition an air flowpath passes through the inlet manifold to the heat exchanger and exits the heat exchanger to ...