US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on April 15 for "Method of machining a feature in an aircraft engine component" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,962, issued on April 15, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method of machining a feature in an aircraft engine component" was invented by Rachid Guiassa (Longueuil, Canada) and Visal Ing (Ste. Julie, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of machining a feature in a component using a machine having a support rotatable about a rotation axis and having a cutting tool movable relative to the component, the component being mounted on the support for rotation about a central axis of the component, the method includes: determining coordinates of at least three points on a reference surface of the com...