US Patent Issued to RTX on June 23 for "Hydraulic piston with embedded linear variable differential transducer for precision position sensing" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,744, issued on June 23, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Hydraulic piston with embedded linear variable differential transducer for precision position sensing" was invented by Joshua Robert Seyler (Stuart, Fla.), Parag H. Mathuria (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Lajos H. Horvath (Jupiter, Fla.) and James Masloski (Lake Worth, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tie bolt stretch system including a rotor assembly including a compressor section coupled with a turbine section by a curvic coupling; a tie bolt joining the compressor section to the turbine section; a stretch tool in operative communication with the tie bolt; th...