US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 29 for "System and method for gas turbine engine rotor bow mitigation" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,702, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"System and method for gas turbine engine rotor bow mitigation" was invented by Bradley C. Schafer (Ellington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor bow mitigation system for a gas turbine engine includes a control system in communication with an actuator, the control system actuates a power source to repeatedly actuate the actuator for a duration of time to intermittently rotate a rotary component such as a high spool of the gas turbine engine. A method of rotor bow mitigation for a gas turbine engine includes intermittently actuating an actuator of a ro...