US Patent Issued to RTX on June 23 for "Additive inflatable leak check bladder" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,330, issued on June 23, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Additive inflatable leak check bladder" was invented by Justin Byer Wotus (Vernon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conformal sealing fixture includes an inflatable bladder having a bladder body, a sealing surface, and an intake port. The bladder body has an outer skin surrounding a hollow inner volume, which is configured to expand to a rigid or semi-rigid structure when in an inflated state and to collapse to a flaccid structure when in a deflated state. The sealing surface is configured to form a leak-tight seal against a port in a component assembly. Th...