US Patent Issued to RTX on June 30 for "Gas turbine compressor cooled sync ring bumper" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,065, issued on June 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas turbine compressor cooled sync ring bumper" was invented by Jonathan D. Little (West Hartford, Conn.), Tyler C. Cox (Weathersfield, Conn.), Bernard W. Pudvah (Portland, Conn.), Matthew G. Rennie (East Hampton, Conn.) and William W. Frank (Cheshire, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case mounted bumper pad including a case contact region supporting a runner pad support; the case contact region is in operative communication with the case, the runner pad support is in operative communication with a runner pad, the runner pad is in operative communication wi...