US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 21 for "Thermal management system for gas turbine engine with open propulsor" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,901, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Thermal management system for gas turbine engine with open propulsor" was invented by Andrew E. Breault (Bolton, Conn.), Murat Yazici (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Jeffrey T. Morton (Manchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swirl recovery vane (SRV) includes a trunnion configured to pivotally connect to an exterior surface of an inner platform of an SRV structure system. The SRV includes a body extending radially from the trunnion to an unshrouded distal vane tip of the vane. The SRV includes a heat exchanger that includes a gas inlet configured to couple a ...