US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 23 for "Geared architecture gas turbine engine with planetary gear oil scavenge" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,038, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Geared architecture gas turbine engine with planetary gear oil scavenge" was invented by Janice Jabido (Farmington, Conn.) and Michael E. McCune (Colchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan drive gear system for a turbofan engine according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a sun gear that is rotatable about an axis, a plurality of intermediate gears driven by the sun gear, and a baffle that is disposed between at least two of the plurality of intermediate gears for defining a lubricant flow path from ...