Innovating for a safer, more connected world
Every year, RTX ranks among the world’s top patent-generating companies. The creation of intellectual property is the foundation of our innovation pipeline – how we develop breakthrough technologies to define the future of aerospace and defense.
Across the globe, our 60,000 engineers are pushing the bounds of what’s possible from advanced materials, sensing and propulsion to artificial intelligence, autonomy and electrification. Their work is part of a continuum that spans a century.
Our innovators revolutionized radars and helped the Allies win the Second World War. They built the technology that guided Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon and defend cities from ballistic missiles. They designed the world’s most fuel-efficient single-aisle aircraft engine – and its most advanced fighter jet engine. This combined heritage gives RTX a legacy of innovations that define eras.
Featured RTX research patents
“To promote the progress of science and useful arts.”
Those words, taken from the patent clause of the U.S. Constitution, appear atop every patent issued in the United States and they encapsulate the spirit of innovation that is the foundation of RTX.
The patents featured below represent a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of inventions and inventors from RTX and its legacy companies that have contributed to the aerospace and defense industry. We are driven to develop solutions to the world’s most complex problems, and we will continue to accelerate the application of science, technology, and engineering to do so.
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Innovation channels
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RTX Technology Research Center
RTX Technology Research Center serves as our innovation hub – developing new technologies and solving the toughest challenges by facilitating the transfer of discoveries and capabilities across the company.
RTX Ventures
RTX Ventures is our venture capital division – investing in small, growing companies and the ideas that will transform aerospace and defense.
Submit an idea to RTX
The next great idea can come from anyone. That's why we keep an open communication line to everyone who may have that next innovation or solution.
We’re looking for top talent in engineering and technology.
Learn moreLicensing RTX patents
Our patents available for licensing range in scope from artificial intelligence and machine learning to additive manufacturing and infrared sensors.