US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 4 for "Aircraft propulsion system with side flowpath inlet(s)" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,085, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft propulsion system with side flowpath inlet(s)" was invented by Joseph T. Caprario (Rocky Hill, Conn.) and Jeffrey T. Morton (Manchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft system includes an open propulsor rotor, an engine core, an engine flowpath and a flow regulator. The open propulsor rotor includes a plurality of open propulsor blades arranged circumferentially about an axis. Each of the open propulsor blades is disposed in an external environment. The engine core includes a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section. T...