US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on July 29 for "Exhaust duct for gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,044, issued on July 29, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Exhaust duct for gas turbine engine" was invented by Eray Akcayoz (Cote-Saint-Luc, Canada) and Mark Cunningham (Montreal-Ouest, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust duct of an aircraft engine includes an annular inlet conduit having an inlet central axis, and at least two outlet conduits in flow communication with the inlet conduit. The at least two outlet conduits are located non-parallel to the inlet central axis. Each of the at least two outlet conduits include an outlet port defining a distal end of each of the two outlet condui...