US Patent Issued to RTX on June 2 for "Aircraft propulsion system with core flowpath inlet forward of fan rotor" (Arizona, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,669, issued on June 2, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft propulsion system with core flowpath inlet forward of fan rotor" was invented by Daniel B. Kupratis (Wallingford, Conn.) and Paul R. Hanrahan (Sedona, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft system includes a propulsion system mounted to an airframe. The propulsion system includes a fan rotor, an engine core, an outer housing structure, an inner housing structure, a bypass flowpath and a core flowpath. The engine core is configured to drive rotation of the fan rotor about an axis. The engine core includes a compressor section, a combustor section ...