US Patent Issued to RTX on July 15 for "Reducing noise from a combustor of a gas turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,814, issued on July 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Reducing noise from a combustor of a gas turbine engine" was invented by Justin M Locke (Tolland, Conn.), Dennis M Moura (South Windsor, Conn.), Duane C McCormick (Colchester, Conn.), Scott A Liljenberg (Wethersfield, Conn.), Theodore R Strickland (Madison, Conn.) and William Proscia (Marlborough, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing noise from a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes the steps of establishing a maximum noise limit that may be for a particular frequency range. A primary fuel flow percentage, which may be emitted from a fu...