ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,322, issued on July 8, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).
"Aircraft power plant" was invented by Serge Dussault (Ste-Julie, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aircraft power plants and associated methods are provided. A method for driving a load on an aircraft includes: transferring motive power from an internal combustion (IC) engine to the load; discharging a flow of first exhaust gas from the IC engine when transferring motive power from the IC engine to the load; receiving the flow of first exhaust gas from the IC engine into a combustor; mixing fuel with the first exhaust gas in the combustor and...