US Patent Issued to RTX on June 17 for "High shear swirler for gas turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,931, issued on June 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"High shear swirler for gas turbine engine" was invented by Baris A. Sen (S. Glastonbury, Conn.), Zhongtao Dai (West Hartford, Conn.), Wookyung Kim (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Stephen K. Kramer (Cromwell, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel injector assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a swirler and a fuel nozzle. The swirler has an outer wall having a SOW inner wall surface, an inner wall having a SIW inner wall surface and a SIW outer wall surface, an outer passage, and an inner passage. The SIW inner wall surface includes first and second sections. T...