US Patent Issued to RTX on July 8 for "Open rotor variable pitch blade with retracting inboard trailing edge" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,185, issued on July 8, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Open rotor variable pitch blade with retracting inboard trailing edge" was invented by Jeffrey T. Morton (Manchester, Conn.), Andrew E. Breault (Bolton, Conn.) and Jon E. Sobanski (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a variable pitch blade configured to connect with an endwall of an open rotor engine. The variable pitch blade defines a chamber therein on a bottom edge thereof. A retractable edge member pivotally connects within the chamber to move between a first position wherein at least a portion of the retractable edge member...