US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on May 13 for "Containment engine case with local features and outer surface reinforcement section" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,744, issued on May 13, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Containment engine case with local features and outer 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. The annular body includes a containment section and an outer reinforcement section extending outwards from the outer surface and subtending a sector of the containment section. Th...