US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on June 10 for "Gas turbine engine bypass louver and baffle rib design" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,112, issued on June 10, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Gas turbine engine bypass louver and baffle rib design" was invented by Marco P. Convertini (Vaughan, Canada), Shervin Aslani Amoli (Toronto) and Harinath Bodugutla Venkata (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan operable for delivering air into a bypass duct. The fan is also operable for delivering air into a core engine housing. The core engine housing encloses a compressor, a combustor and a turbine section. The core engine housing has an upstream end defining a separation point between the bypas...