US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on April 8 for "Containment assembly for an aircraft engine" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,345, issued on April 8, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Containment assembly for an aircraft engine" was invented by Christopher Gover (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A containment assembly is provided for an aircraft engine having a rotor with a set of blades. The containment assembly comprises a containment casing annularly surrounding the rotor radially outward of the set of blades. The containment casing is made of a material having a density less than that of steel. A layer of thermal insulation is disposed radially inward of the containment casing. The layer of thermal insula...