US Patent Issued to RTX on June 30 for "Adjusting pitch for airfoils of an aircraft propulsion system" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,354, issued on June 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Adjusting pitch for airfoils of an aircraft propulsion system" was invented by Jon E. Sobanski (Glastonbury, Conn.), Jeffrey T. Morton (Manchester, Conn.) and Andrew E. Breault (Bolton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating an aircraft propulsion system. During this method, rotation of a propulsor rotor of the propulsion system is driven about a rotational axis. The propulsor rotor includes a plurality of rotor blades. A first blade pitch schedule is applied to the propulsor rotor while the propulsor rotor is rotating about the r...