US Patent Issued to RTX on July 15 for "Excess fuel flow to drive turbine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,625, issued on July 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Excess fuel flow to drive turbine" was invented by Joseph Turney (Amston, Conn.) and Michael K. Ikeda (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a main compressor section and a main turbine section. A cooling air supply system cools a location in at least one of the main compressor section and the main turbine section. The cooling air supply system includes a tap for tapping cooling air compressed by the main compressor section, connected for passing the cooling air through a heat exchanger and to a boost compressor, and th...