ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,529, issued on March 11, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Morphing structures for fan inlet variable vanes" was invented by Michael M. Joly (Hebron, Conn.), Zaffir A. Chaudhry (South Glastonbury, Conn.), Andrzej Ernest Kuczek (Bristol, Conn.), Om P. Sharma (South Windsor, Conn.), Georgi Kalitzin (West Hartford, Conn.) and Simon W. Evans (Farmington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil for a gas turbine engine including an airfoil body extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge and between a pressure side and a suction side. The airfoil body includes a strut portion extending from the leading edge...