US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 5 for "Direct horsepower and torque measurement system for gas turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,919, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Direct horsepower and torque measurement system for gas turbine engine" was invented by Donald E. Grove (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor arrangement for a gas powered turbine includes at least one sensor disposed on a power extraction shaft and configured to output a measured power extraction of the power extraction shaft. A controller is in communication with the at least one sensor. The controller includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores instructions for causing the processor to respond to a received measured power extractio...