US Patent Issued to RTX on July 15 for "Rotating sleeve controlling clearance of seal assembly of gas turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,626, issued on July 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Rotating sleeve controlling clearance of seal assembly of gas turbine engine" was invented by Jacob Peter Mastro (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Kyle L. Forgette (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a bearing compartment, a shaft configured to rotate during operation of the gas turbine engine, and a sleeve configured to rotate with the shaft during operation of the gas turbine engine. The sleeve includes a variable radial dimension about a circumference of the sleeve. The engine further includes a seal s...