US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Feb. 3 for "Gas turbine engine nozzle with variable area" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,587, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Quebec, Canada).

"Gas turbine engine nozzle with variable area" was invented by Eric S. Durocher (Quebec, Canada) and Michel Labrecque (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft gas turbine engine includes an exhaust nozzle having a nozzle flowpath, and a nacelle of the gas turbine engine at least partially defining an exhaust nozzle flow area of the exhaust nozzle. The nacelle extends axially along an engine central longitudinal axis of the gas turbine engine and circumferentially around the engine central longitudinal axis. A shutter vector apparatu...