US Patent Issued to RTX on May 6 for "Component mounting and drive in a geared turbofan architecture" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,004, issued on May 6, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Component mounting and drive in a geared turbofan architecture" was invented by Todd A. Davis (Tolland, Conn.) and David Allen Stachowiak (Durham, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan drive gear system for a turbine engine includes a sun gear that is configured to be driven by an engine shaft that is rotatable about an axis. The sun gear includes a first gear portion and a second gear portion. A plurality of intermediate gears are coupled to the first gear portion of the sun gear, a ring gear is coupled to the plurality of intermediate gears, a carrier suppor...