US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 15 for "SGV acoustic liner retention" (Pennsylvania, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,009, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"SGV acoustic liner retention" was invented by Colin Kling (Exton, Pa.) and David A. Welch (Quaker Hill, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural guide vane with acoustic panel retention including an acoustic panel inserted into an acoustic panel receiver; a retention tab formed near a trailing edge of the acoustic panel; a leading edge extension formed near a leading edge of the acoustic panel; a tab receiver formed in the structural guide vane near a trailing edge of the structural guide vane; and a leading edge cap secured over the leading edge exten...