US Patent Issued to RTX on June 23 for "Open rotor aircraft propulsion system with multi- gear system geartrain" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,967, issued on June 23, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Open rotor aircraft propulsion system with multi- gear system geartrain" was invented by Jeffrey T. Morton (Manchester, Conn.), Andrew E. Breault (Bolton, Conn.) and Roger Gates (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for an aircraft. This assembly includes an open propulsor rotor, an engine core and a geartrain. The open propulsor rotor is configured to rotate about an axis. The engine core includes a flowpath, a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section and a rotating structure. The flowpath extends through ...