ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,991, issued on May 6, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Housing assembly for rotary engine" was invented by Jeremie Barberger (Montreal) and Vincent Savaria (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing assembly for a rotary engine, has: a rotor housing having a peripheral inner face, a first face and a second face; a first side defining a first inner side face; and a second side housing defining a second inner side face, the rotor cavity bounded between the first side housing and the second side housing, one or more of the rotor housing, the first side housing, and the second side housing h...