US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on June 17 for "Method and apparatus to measure gas turbine compressor exit temperature" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,125, issued on June 17, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method and apparatus to measure gas turbine compressor exit temperature" was invented by Martin Drolet (Saint-Amable, Canada) and Sebastien Lortie (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a compressor, a combustor and a turbine. A compressor section has an exit upstream of the combustor. A temperature probe extends through a compressor exit housing surrounding the compressor section exit. The temperature probe taps air downstream of the exit into a probe body having a passage leading to a temperature sensor. There ...