ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,999, issued on May 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Separating airflows within a turbine engine" was invented by Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This assembly includes an engine core extending axially along an axis. The engine core includes a compressor section, a combustor, a diffuser structure, a diffuser plenum and a plurality of separators. The combustor is arranged within the diffuser plenum. The combustor includes a combustion chamber and a combustor wall between the combustion chamber and the diffuser plenum. The diffuser struc...