US Patent Issued to RTX on June 17 for "Particulate separator assembly for a gas turbine engine" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,682, issued on June 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Particulate separator assembly for a gas turbine engine" was invented by William K. Ackermann (East Hartford, Conn.), Andrew J. Murphy (Old Saybrook, Conn.), Marc J. Muldoon (Marlborough, Conn.), Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, Conn.) and William J. Beeson (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a gas turbine engine includes at least one rotational assembly, an engine static structure, a compressor, one or more compressed air loads, and a particulate separator assembly. The at least one rotational assembly includes a shaft, a bladed compressor ro...