US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 18 for "Magnetic-foil bearing supporting turbine engine rotating structure" (Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,857, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Magnetic-foil bearing supporting turbine engine rotating structure" was invented by Alexander R. Nelson (Amston, Conn.), Benstone I. Schwartz (Sanford, Fla.), Philip A. Varney (Coventry, Conn.) and Andrew V. Schwendenmann (Hampden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine is provided that includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, a flowpath, a first rotating structure, a second rotating structure and a bearing system. The flowpath extends through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section from a...