ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,577, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"AFT gear based engine with heat recovery system" was invented by Jon Erik Sobanski (Glastonbury, Conn.), Jeffrey T. Morton (Manchester, Conn.) and Andrew E. Breault (Bolton, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a propulsor section that includes a fan with a plurality of fan blades that are rotatable about a fan axis, a core engine that is configured to generate a gas flow, a power turbine that is mechanically uncoupled from the core engine and rotatable independent of the core engine, the gas flow from the core engine is...