US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Nov. 11 for "Blade for a rotor assembly of a turbine engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,375, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Blade for a rotor assembly of a turbine engine" was invented by Daniel Lecuyer (Saint-Bruno, Canada) and Robert Huszar (Beloeil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade for mounting on a rotor disc of a turbine engine includes platform segments between a airfoil and blade root and extending laterally from the blade, the platform segment having a curved profile defining a platform recess on a root side of the platform segment, the recess configured to cooperate with recesses of adjacent blades to define a blade pocket. A recessed region is...