ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,091, issued on July 1, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method of manufacturing a part of an aircraft engine" was invented by Rachid Guiassa (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a feature in a part with a cutting tool, includes machining a semi-finished shape of the feature, determining an actual position of at least one target point on a surface of the semi-finished shape, and computing a difference between the determined position of the at least one target point and a nominal position of the at least one target point on a digitized model of the part having the ...