ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,970, issued on May 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Lubrication network for an attritable engine" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Leslie F. Guzman (West Palm Beach, Fla.), Sean R. Jackson (Palm City, Fla.) and Evan J. Butcher (Suffield, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine with a lubrication system includes a ball bearing assembly and a rotor circumscribing a rotational axis and journaled within the ball bearing assembly. The gas turbine engine also includes a lubrication system located radially outward from a rotational axis and radially outward and adjacent to the ball...