US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 11 for "Translatable guide vanes for aircraft propulsion system" (Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,384, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Translatable guide vanes for aircraft propulsion system" was invented by Jeffrey T Morton (Manchester, Conn.), Murat Yazici (Glastonbury, Conn.), Thomas E Clark (Wells, Maine) and Konstantinos P Giannakopoulos (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This assembly includes an open propulsor rotor and an open guide vane structure. The open propulsor rotor is configured to rotate about a rotational axis. The open guide vane structure is axially next to the open propulsor rotor. The open guide vane ...