US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on March 11 for "Retainer and method for disassembling an aircraft engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,518, issued on March 11, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Retainer and method for disassembling an aircraft engine" was invented by Louis Lavoie (Brampton, Canada), Danny Noiseux (Longueuil, Canada) and Sean Wolczyk (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly has: a gas turbine engine including: a compressor including a rotor including blades rotatable about a central axis and disposed in a gas path of the gas turbine engine, a stator including one or more vanes disposed in the gas path, and a compressor case disposed around the stator; a combustor downstream of the compressor along...