US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 29 for "Integrated surface treatment for drag and noise reduction" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,698, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Integrated surface treatment for drag and noise reduction" was invented by Brian M. Holley (Eastford, Conn.), Christopher T. Chipman (Brooklyn, Conn.), Daniel W. Shannon (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Julian Winkler (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerodynamic component having an aerodynamic surface having a first side facing a fluid flow in a flow direction, and a second side opposed to the first side; at least one resonant cavity on the second side of the surface; at least one rib on the first side of the surface and aligned in the flow directi...