US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 25 for "Case coupled electric machine(s) for aircraft powerplant" (Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,391, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Case coupled electric machine(s) for aircraft powerplant" was invented by Thomas E. Clark (Wells, Maine) and Murat Yazici (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft assembly includes an engine core, a core case, a nacelle structure, a core compartment, a first electric machine and a first driveshaft. The engine core includes a first rotating structure rotatable about a first axis and that includes a first structure rotor. The core case is radially outboard of and houses the engine core. The nacelle structure is radially outboard of and covers ...