US Patent Issued to RTX on July 14 for "Partially shrouded aircraft propulsion system" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,549, issued on July 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Partially shrouded aircraft propulsion system" was invented by Daniel B. Kupratis (Wallingford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for an aircraft. This assembly includes a first propulsor rotor, a powerplant and a propulsion system housing. The powerplant is configured to drive rotation of the first propulsor rotor about an axis. The propulsion system housing includes an inner structure and an outer structure with a bypass flowpath radially between the inner structure and the outer structure. The bypass flowpath is downstream of the fir...