US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 29 for "Flexible support structure for a geared architecture gas turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,675, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Flexible support structure for a geared architecture gas turbine engine" was invented by Michael E. McCune (Colchester, Conn.) and Jason Husband (South Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan section that has fan blades that drive air along a bypass flow path in a bypass duct. A fan shaft is drivingly connected to the fan. A turbine section includes a turbine drive shaft. A gear system is connected to the turbine draft shaft through an input and connected to the fan shaft through an output. At least one of the input...