ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,751, issued on June 24, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Centrifugal water molecular separation" was invented by Neil J. Terwilliger (Cheshire, Conn.) and Andressa L. Johnson (Kailua, Hawaii).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft propulsion system includes a condenser at least partially disposed within the core flow path where water is extracted from the exhaust gas flow, an evaporator system that is at least partially disposed within the core flow path upstream of the condenser where thermal energy from the exhaust gas flow is utilized to generate a steam flow from at least a portion of water that is extracted by ...