ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,010, issued on July 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Passive ventilation system for tail cone zone" was invented by Federico Papa (Port Saint Lucie, Fla.), Eric J. Heims (Avon, Conn.), Reza Rezvani (Bolton, Conn.), Yuan J. Qiu (Glastonbury, Conn.) and William K. Ackermann (East Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tail cone ventilation system including a tail cone case defining a tail cone interior and a tail cone exterior, the tail cone having a forward portion and an aft portion separated axially along a tail cone axis; a distribution manifold located within the tail cone interior proximate the forwar...