US Patent Issued to RTX on June 3 for "Gas turbine engine with bypass TOBI cooling/purge flow and method" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,270, issued on June 3, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas turbine engine with bypass TOBI cooling/purge flow and method" was invented by William K. Ackermann (East Hartford, Conn.), Brian F. Hilbert (Coventry, Conn.), Paul A. Sicard (East Hartford, Conn.), Andrew E. Breault (Bolton, Conn.) and Rishon Saftler (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine is provided that includes a high pressure compressor (HPC), a combustor section, a high pressure turbine (HPT), and a bypass tangential on board injector (TOBI) system. The combustor section has a combustor. A core gas path extends through the...