US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 9 for "Boost compressor augmentation for hybrid electric thermal management systems" (Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,748, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Boost compressor augmentation for hybrid electric thermal management systems" was invented by Thomas E. Clark (Wells, Maine), Jung Muk Choe (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Bryan Kupferman (Monroe, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan is disposed at an intake of a nacelle, and a gas turbine is contained within a first portion of the nacelle. The gas turbine includes compressor, combustor, and turbine stages through which a core stream of gas passes past the fan and past the compressor, combustor, and turbine stages. A first heat exchanger is disposed in a second p...