US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 26 for "Open rotor aircraft propulsion system with bypass flowpath" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,924, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Open rotor aircraft propulsion system with bypass flowpath" was invented by Jeffrey T. Morton (Manchester, Conn.), Andrew E. Breault (Bolton, Conn.) and Jon Erik Sobanski (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system for an aircraft includes an open propulsor rotor and a turbine engine configured to drive rotation of the open propulsor rotor about an axis. The turbine engine includes a core flowpath, a bypass flowpath, a fan section and an engine core. The engine core includes a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine sectio...