US Patent Issued to RTX on July 22 for "Gas turbine engine with high speed low pressure turbine section and bearing support features" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,179, issued on July 22, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas turbine engine with high speed low pressure turbine section and bearing support features" was invented by Frederick M. Schwarz (Glastonbury, Conn.), Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Conn.), William K. Ackermann (East Hartford, Conn.), Daniel Bernard Kupratis (Wallingford, Conn.) and Michael E. McCune (Colchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, propulsor means, first compression means, second compression means, reduction means for reducing a rotational spee...