ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,184, issued on July 8, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Wear pad for root of fan blade" was invented by Robert Andrew Love (Bloomfield, Conn.) and Jiayuan Shen (East Lyme, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear pad assembly is provided for a root of a fan blade. The wear pad assembly includes a first tapered side piece including an edge and first and second ends, a second tapered side piece including an edge and first and second ends, a bottom piece extending between the respective edges of the first and second tapered side pieces and including first and second ends and first and second end pieces by which the resp...