US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 12 for "Accretion detection systems and associated methods for gas turbine engines" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,808, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Accretion detection systems and associated methods for gas turbine engines" was invented by Sheridon Haye (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure may include at least one rotatable airfoil, at least one vibration sensor operable to detect vibration of the at least one airfoil at one or more rotational frequencies, and a controller operatively coupled to the at least one vibration sensor. The controller may be operable to determine an accretion level associated wi...