ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,294, issued on April 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Gas turbine engine front center body architecture" was invented by Todd A. Davis (Tolland, Conn.) and Brian P. Cigal (Windsor, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a propulsor, a geared architecture including a gearbox, a gas generator section including a compressor section having a first rotor rotationally mounted to a first spool. A front center body assembly defines a portion of a core flow path that is forward of the first rotor relative to an engine longitudinal axis. A front wall is mounted to the front center body assembly, ...