US Patent Issued to RTX on May 27 for "Separating airflows within a turbine engine" (Arizona, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,000, issued on May 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Separating airflows within a turbine engine" was invented by Paul R. Hanrahan (Sedona, Ariz.) and Kyle D. Crawford (Manchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine apparatus includes an air-debris separation structure, and the air-debris separation structure includes a first air-debris separator, a second air-debris separator and a separation structure outlet. The first air-debris separator includes a first separator inlet and a first separator outlet out from the air-debris separation structure. ...