ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,727, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Propulsor blade imaging assembly method for an aircraft propulsion system" was invented by Scott Goyette (Moosup, Conn.), Gregory S. Hagen (Glastonbury, Conn.), Zaffir A. Chaudhry (South Glastonbury, Conn.), Paul Attridge (Colchester, Conn.), Janet Shaw (Tolland, Conn.), David L. Lincoln (Cromwell, Conn.) and Jeffrey P. King (Coventry, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for an aircraft propulsion system includes a propulsor and an imaging assembly. The propulsor includes a propulsor disk, a plurality of propulsor blades, and a nose cone. The plural...