US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on July 22 for "Gas turbine adaptive secondary fuel filling profile" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,360, issued on July 22, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Gas turbine adaptive secondary fuel filling profile" was invented by Louis Duranleau-Hendrickx (Montreal) and Gabriel Meunier (Saint Bruno, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine, a primary manifold for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber via a first plurality of nozzles and a secondary manifold for injection fuel into the combustion chamber via a second plurality of nozzles. A fuel control system provides fuel flow to the primary manifold and to the secondary manifold. T...