US Patent Issued to RTX on Dec. 23 for "Radial strut frame connection between fan case and core housing in a gas turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,988, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Radial strut frame connection between fan case and core housing in a gas turbine engine" was invented by Anthony R. Bifulco (Ellington, Conn.) and David A. Topol (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan rotor driven by a fan drive turbine about an axis through a gear reduction to reduce a speed of the fan rotor relative to a speed of the fan drive turbine. A fan case surrounds the fan rotor, and a core engine with a compressor section, including a low pressure compressor. The fan rotor delivers air into a bypass duc...