US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 4 for "Adhesive-reinforced aluminum hollow fan blade for bonded cover retention" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,714, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Adhesive-reinforced aluminum hollow fan blade for bonded cover retention" was invented by John Harner (Florence, Mass.), Xiaomei Fang (South Glastonbury, Conn.), Kerry E. Muenchow (Glastonbury, Conn.), John Austin Bayliff (West Hartford, Conn.), Andrew Hathcock (Weatogue, Conn.), Rachel Boislard (Willimantic, Conn.) and David J. Mathiau Jr. (East Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a blade for an engine comprising a blade cover and a blade body. A first adhesive bond is disposed between the blade cover and the blade body. A second adh...