US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Feb. 4 for "Gas turbine engine rotor blade geometry and method for selecting same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,597, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Gas turbine engine rotor blade geometry and method for selecting same" was invented by Anthony Bruni (Toronto), Jason Nichols (Mississauga, Canada), Ramy Rashad (Oakville, Canada) and Mohammadreza Amiralaei (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft propulsion system includes a bladed rotor configured for rotation about a rotational axis. A rotor blade of the bladed rotor of rotor blades includes a blade body. The blade body has a blade span extending between and to a base end and a tip end. The blade body has a blade chord...