US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Feb. 18 for "System and method for thrust linearization with thrust lever angle" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,085, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"System and method for thrust linearization with thrust lever angle" was invented by Jeffrey Poissant (Brossard, Canada), Robert Pontarelli (Brossard, Canada) and Cristina Crainic (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for correlating engine thrust and engine thrust lever angle (TLA) during operation of a gas turbine engine powered aircraft is provided. The method includes: a) providing current flight conditions including a Mach number of the aircraft, altitude of the aircraft, and a TLA; b) determining a corrected...