ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,999, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Real-time thermal coking sensor" was invented by Stephen K. Kramer (Cromwell, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine fuel system includes a fuel delivery system, an oil cooling subsystem, and a fuel conditioning subsystem. The fuel delivery subsystem delivers fuel to a gas turbine engine, and the oil cooling subsystem receives heated oil from the gas turbine engine. The fuel conditioning subsystem includes a fuel/oil cooler that is in fluid communication with the fuel delivery subsystem to receive the fuel and is in fluid communication with t...