US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Nov. 18 for "System and method for applying trim balance to a module of the gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,845, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"System and method for applying trim balance to a module of the gas turbine engine" was invented by Sean Wolczyk (Georgetown, Canada), Louis Lavoie (Brampton, Canada), Danny Noiseux (Quebec, Canada), Ivan Veljkovic (Burlington, Canada) and Anthony Topping (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for applying balancing trim to a module of a gas turbine engine, the module having a compressor having a forward shaft and an aft hub, a turbine connected to the aft hub, and the turbine having a turbine case and an aft shaft, the system h...