US Patent Issued to RTX on June 24 for "Steam injected turbine engine steam generation control" (Connecticut, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,766, issued on June 24, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Steam injected turbine engine steam generation control" was invented by Abbas A. Alahyari (Glastonbury, Conn.), Neil J. Terwilliger (Cheshire, Conn.), Milos Ilak (Hoboken, N.J.) and Daniel T. Pollock (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system for an aircraft includes at least two steam generation assemblies that each include a condenser where water is extracted from the gas flow and an evaporator where the extracted water is heated to generate a portion of a total steam flow for injection into the core flow path. A monitoring system ...