US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Nov. 11 for "Gas turbine engine with clutch system between low-pressure compressor and low-pressure turbine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,412, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Gas turbine engine with clutch system between low-pressure compressor and low-pressure turbine" was invented by Ghislain Plante (Verdun, Canada) and Patrick Valois (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine having: an engine core having, in serial flow communication, a low-pressure compressor, a high-pressure compressor, a high-pressure turbine drivingly connected to the high-pressure compressor, and a low-pressure turbine drivingly connected to an output shaft; and a clutch having a disengaged configuration in which...