ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,520, issued on May 20, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method of mitigating corrosion and erosion in an aircraft engine" was invented by Alireza Gharagozloo (Boucherville, Canada), Roja Tabar (Boucherville, Canada) and Pascal Lavoie (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mitigating corrosion and erosion in an aircraft engine, includes: receiving a concentration of contaminants contained within a sample of an environmental medium ingested by the aircraft engine; determining a frequency of corrosion and erosion mitigation actions based on the concentration of the contaminants; a...