US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 29 for "Nose cone with air scoop for open rotor propulsion system" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,694, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Nose cone with air scoop for open rotor propulsion system" was invented by Jeffrey T. Morton (Manchester, Conn.) and Edward J. Gallagher (West Hartford, 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 an open propulsor rotor and a nose cone. The open propulsor rotor is configured to rotate about an axis. The nose cone is upstream of and is configured to rotate with the open propulsor rotor. The nose cone extends axially along the axis from a forward tip end of the nose cone to an aft base en...