US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 12 for "Abradable material and design for jet engine applications" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,139, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Abradable material and design for jet engine applications" was invented by Kerry E. Muenchow (West Hartford, Conn.), Georgios S. Zafiris (Glastonbury, Conn.), John Harner (Florence, Mass.), Raymond P. Martina Jr. (Manchester, Conn.), Imad Hanhan (Newington, Conn.), Darin S. Lussier (Guilford, Conn.), Mark W. Costa (Storrs, Conn.), Michael R. LaFavor (Manchester, Conn.) and Scott A. Smith (Plantsville, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing an abradable panel for a rub strip of a fan case of a gas turbine engine includes forming an abradable m...