ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,015, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Actively driven remote mount optical probe" was invented by Bryan James Hackett (Berlin, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan duct, an engine casing, and a gaspath casing. A thermal imaging device is integrated with the gas turbine engine. The thermal imaging device includes: a main body comprising processing circuitry, where the main body is mountable to the fan duct or a mounting structure separate from the fan duct. The thermal imaging device includes a probe mounted to the engine casing. The probe includes one or more senso...