US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 23 for "Anti-rotation feature for instrumentation of gas turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,866, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Anti-rotation feature for instrumentation of gas turbine engine" was invented by Eli Warren (Wethersfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component assembly of a gas turbine engine includes a component of a gas turbine engine, and an instrumentation probe installed to the component. The instrumentation probe includes a sensor body extending through a component wall, and a threaded fastener installed onto a complimentary thread of the sensor body to retain the sensor body. The threaded fastener is retained to the sensor body via deforming a threaded inte...