US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 25 for "Cooling fuel injector system for an attritable engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,658, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Cooling fuel injector system for an attritable engine" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.) and David W. Morganson (Marlborough, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additively manufactured attritable engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section, and an engine case wall, which surrounds the compressor section, the combustion section, and the turbine section. The engine case wall includes a first cavity embedded in the engine case wall that defines an injector that is in fluid communication with the combustion ...