US Patent Issued to RTX on June 17 for "Bottoming cycle for waste heat recovery and engine cooling" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,678, issued on June 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Bottoming cycle for waste heat recovery and engine cooling" was invented by Alan Retersdorf (Avon, Conn.), Stephen H. Taylor (East Hartford, Conn.), Nathan A. Snape (Tolland, Conn.), Oliver V. Atassi (Longmeadow, Mass.) and Malcolm P. MacDonald (Bloomfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine assembly includes a core engine that includes a core flow path where a core airflow is compressed in a compressor section, communicated to a combustor section, mixed with fuel and ignited to generate an exhaust gas flow that is expanded through a turbin...