US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 7 for "Tailoring aircraft powerplant split line with inflatable bladder(s)" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,641, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Tailoring aircraft powerplant split line with inflatable bladder(s)" was invented by Michael D. Miller (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This assembly includes a propulsor rotor and a flowpath wall. The propulsor rotor is rotatable about an axis. The propulsor rotor includes a plurality of propulsor blades and an inner platform. The propulsor blades are arranged circumferentially about the axis and project radially out from the inner platform. The flowpath wall is next to and downstream of the i...