ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,005, issued on May 6, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft propulsion system geartrain" was invented by Paul R. Hanrahan (Sedona, Ariz.), Benjamin T. Mylrea (Jupiter, Fla.) and David A. Stachowiak (Manchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft assembly includes a geartrain with a first gear system and a second gear system. The first gear system includes a first sun gear, a first ring gear, a plurality of first intermediate gears and a first carrier. The first sun gear and the first ring gear are each rotatable about an axis. The first intermediate gears are between and meshed with the first sun gear...