US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Aug. 19 for "Constant volume combustor for gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,282, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Constant volume combustor for gas turbine engine" was invented by Dave Menheere (Norval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor assembly for a turbine engine includes a combustor assembly where a first combustion space is defined between a first closed end of a combustion chamber and a first piston, a second combustion space is defined between a second closed end of the combustion chamber and a second piston and a center combustion space is defined between the first piston and the second piston. An air inlet assembly provides for com...