US Patent Issued to RTX, MTU AERO ENGINES on Dec. 9 for "Low noise turbine for geared turbofan engine" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,664, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.) and MTU AERO ENGINES AG (Munich).

"Low noise turbine for geared turbofan engine" was invented by Bruce L. Morin (Longmeadow, Conn.) and Detlef Korte (Karlsfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft system includes, among other things, an aircraft and a gas turbine engine coupled to the aircraft. The gas turbine engine includes a propulsor section including a propulsor, a compressor section, a turbine section including a first turbine and a second turbine, and a gear reduction between the propulsor and the second turbine. The second turbine includes a nu...