US Patent Issued to RTX on July 29 for "Removing non-homogeneous ice from a fuel system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,050, issued on July 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Removing non-homogeneous ice from a fuel system" was invented by Behzad Hagshenas (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed embodiments utilize an ice separator vessel to trap ice particles in a non-homogeneous ice/fuel mixture flowing in a fuel system. A source of heat, such as heated fuel provided to the ice separator vessel, is used to melt at least a portion of the ice particles so that they do not enter the fuel system downstream of the ice separator vessel."

The patent was filed on Aug. 30, 2021, under Application No. 17/460,617.

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