US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 12 for "Splitter and guide vane arrangement for gas turbine engines" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,449, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Splitter and guide vane arrangement for gas turbine engines" was invented by Daniel Bernard Kupratis (Wallingford, Conn.) and Paul R. Hanrahan (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A section for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a rotor including a row of blades extending in a radial direction outwardly from a hub. The row of blades deliver flow to a bypass flow path, an intermediate flow path, and a core flow path. A first case surrounds the row of blades to establish the bypass flow ...