US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 27 for "Multi-ring spacer for gas turbine engine rotor stack assembly" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,035, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Multi-ring spacer for gas turbine engine rotor stack assembly" was invented by Nicholas Waters Oren (Marlborough, Conn.) and Steven D. Porter (Wethersfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-ring spacer includes a first ring having a first clocking position, a second ring coaxial with the first ring, and having a second clocking position. A total kink angle of the multi ring spacer is dependent on an angular deviation of the second ring's clocking position relative to the first ring's clocking position."

The patent was filed on July 15, 2020, under Ap...