US Patent Issued to RTX on May 13 for "Aircraft heat exchanger panel array interconnection" (Connecticut, Colorado, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,775, issued on May 13, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft heat exchanger panel array interconnection" was invented by Russell J. Bergman (South Windsor, Conn.), William D. Blickenstaff (Port Saint Lucie, Fla.), James F. Wiedenhoefer (Windsor, Conn.), William P. Stillman (Boulder, Colo.), Patrick M. Hart (Enfield, Conn.) and Scott D. Virkler (Ellington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger for providing thermal energy transfer between first and second flows along first and second flowpaths has a plate bank having a plurality of plates. Each plate has: opposite first and second faces and leading a...