US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 22 for "Open rotor aircraft propulsion system with anti-icing system" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,744, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Open rotor aircraft propulsion system with anti-icing 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: "An assembly is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This assembly includes a propulsion module, a gas generator and an anti-icing system. The propulsion module includes an open propulsor rotor. The gas generator is configured to drive rotation of the open propulsor rotor about an axis. The gas generator includes a flowpath, a compressor...