US Patent Issued to RTX on July 21 for "Nose cone with actuated debris deflection flow" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,127, issued on July 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Nose cone with actuated debris deflection flow" was invented by Ioannis Alvanos (West Springfield, Mass.) and David A. Welch (Quaker Hill, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nose cone for debris deflection comprising a deflector formed in the nose cone, and an actuator in operative communication with the deflector, the actuator configured to engage the deflector configured to create a deflection air stream; the deflection air stream being configured to manipulate a fan inlet air flow such that any debris entrained in the fan inlet air flow has a trajectory li...