ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,583, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Integrated electro-aero-thermal turbine engine" was invented by Daniel Bernard Kupratis (Wallingford, Conn.), Zubair Ahmed Baig (South Windsor, Conn.), Gary Collopy (Vernon, Conn.) and Coy Bruce Wood (Ellington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes integrated electric machines in the compressor section and the turbine section to supplement power produced from fuel with electric power. The example compressor section includes a compressor electric motor that is coupled to a compressor generator. The example turbine section includes a turbine...