US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Nov. 11 for "Joint for connection to variable guide vane of gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,383, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Quebec, Canada).

"Joint for connection to variable guide vane of gas turbine engine" was invented by Richard Ivakitch (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable pitch stator vane stage of a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of stator vanes extending across a flowpath of the gas turbine engine, and an actuation assembly operably connected to the plurality of start vanes. The actuation assembly includes an actuation ring extending circumferentially around an engine central longitudinal axis of the gas turbine engine, and a plurality of vane ...