ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,030, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Aft mounted pusher fan for gas turbine engine" was invented by Jon Erik Sobanski (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Andrew E. Breault (Bolton, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan drive turbine drives a drive shaft. A compressor section and a turbine section rotate about a rotational axis, with the turbine section positioned in a downstream direction. A fan has fan blades and a fan hub positioned radially within a fan case, with the fan case defining a bypass duct. A fan inlet guide vane case is upstream of the fan blades and a fan exit guide vane case is mounted dow...