US Patent Issued to RTX on March 17 for "Composite tip and trailing edge reinforcement for composite fan blade" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,879, issued on March 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Composite tip and trailing edge reinforcement for composite fan blade" was invented by Xiaomei Fang (South Glastonbury, Conn.), Xuetao Li (South Glastonbury, Conn.), Scott A. Smith (Plantsville, Conn.), Po-Ching Yeh (Woodbridge, Conn.) and Ji Won Mok (Rocky Hill, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite tip and trailing edge reinforcement wrap for a composite fan blade including a non-woven composite main body forming an airfoil portion above a flow path and a tip adjacent the airfoil portion opposite a root portion; the airfoil portion defines a blade ...