ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,186, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method of evaluating aircraft engine components for compliance with flow requirements" was invented by Mizanur Rahman (Saint-Hubert, Canada) and Bruno Rivest (St-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of evaluating compliance of a component of an aircraft engine with flow requirements has: obtaining experimental data from experimental testing on a prototype of the component; obtaining a digitized model of a production model of the component, the digitized model including digitized apertures having geometrical data co...