ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,078, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Unitary case integrated flow scoops" was invented by Lawrence Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Garrett Moler (Lake Park, Fla.) and Frederick Rosenberger (West Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor system for an aerial vehicle can include an outer case with a first and second end, an inner combustor case with a lumen, a central combustor chamber, an air flow path between the outer case and inner combustor case, an integrated air scoop attached to the inner combustor case at the lumen that directs air from the air flow path into the central combusto...