US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on April 1 for "Oil pump for gas turbine engine and associated method of pumping oil" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,658, issued on April 1, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Oil pump for gas turbine engine and associated method of pumping oil" was invented by Dave Menheere (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pump can have a support having a guide extending around an axis, a radial position of the guide relative the axis varying around the axis, and a first oil passage formed in the support; a rotary assembly mounted to the support via support bearings, and rotatable around the axis, the rotary assembly having a second oil passage and a cylinder, the cylinder extending radially relative the axis, a...