US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on June 3 for "Containment engine case with local features and inner surface reinforcement section" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,266, issued on June 3, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Containment engine case with local features and inner surface reinforcement section" was invented by Rana Foroutan (St-Lambert, Canada) and Masoud Roshan Fekr (St-Lambert, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A containment case includes an annular body bound by an inner surface and an outer surface and an outer surface feature extending outward from the outer surface and an inner surface feature extending inwards from the inner surface. The annular body includes a containment section and an inner reinforcement section radially inward from the in...