US Patent Issued to RTX on June 16 for "Inspection system for a gas turbine engine" (Texas, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,779, issued on June 16, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Inspection system for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Sheridon Haye (College Station, Texas) and Jeremiah C. Lee (Coventry, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system for a gas turbine engine includes a team of terrestrial drones each equipped with at least one inspection sensor and at least one processor. The processor is configured to choreograph operation of the terrestrial drones to each move along an associated drone-specific inspection path and collectively traverse an area of interest in a gas turbine engine; and operate the inspection...