US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Rolls-Royce on Jan. 28 for "Adjustable fan track liner with dual slotted array active fan tip treatment for distortion tolerance" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,541, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Adjustable fan track liner with dual slotted array active fan tip treatment for distortion tolerance" was invented by Daniel E. Molnar Jr. (Indianapolis), Robert W. Heeter (Indianapolis) and Jonathan M. Rivers (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan and a fan case assembly. The fan includes a fan rotor configured to rotate about an axis of the gas turbine engine and a plurality of fan blades coupled to the fan rotor for rotation therewith. The fan case asse...