US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 14 for "Visual and/or dimensional tip inspection systems and methods" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,634, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Visual and/or dimensional tip inspection systems and methods" was invented by Keith R. Boislard (Colchester, Conn.), Ozgur Erdinc (Mansfield, Conn.), Kathryn S. Conety (East Haddam, Conn.), Iuliana Cernatescu (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Garrett Kernozicky (Mansfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can comprise: scanning, via an optical scanner, a tip of an airfoil of a bladed rotor, the tip including a coating disposed thereon, the coating comprising a metal plating and a plurality of protrusions, each protrusion in the plurality of protrusions extend...