US Patent Issued to RTX on March 25 for "Ground-based aircraft movement" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,139, issued on March 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Ground-based aircraft movement" was invented by Stephen A. Witalis (Glastonbury, Conn.), Ramesh Rajagopalan (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Manuj Dhingra (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine system for an aircraft includes a gas turbine engine and a control system. The control system is configured to motor the gas turbine engine, absent fuel burn, during a taxi mode of the aircraft. The control system is further configured to accelerate a motoring speed of the gas turbine engine, absent fuel burn, above an idle speed of the gas turbine engine t...