US Patent Issued to RTX on March 25 for "Fuel-cooled engine component(s)" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,906, issued on March 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Fuel-cooled engine component(s)" was invented by Dustin W. Davis (Marlborough, Conn.), Lance L. Smith (West Hartford, Conn.) and Won-Wook Kim (Bloomfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for a turbine engine with a flowpath. This assembly includes a fuel source and an engine component. The engine component forms a peripheral boundary of the flowpath. The engine component includes a component internal passage. The engine component is configured to receive fuel from the fuel source. The engine component is configured to crack at least...