ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,426, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Quebec, Canada).
"Containment ring for gas turbine engine" was invented by Nathan Tomes (Hamilton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casing for a gas turbine engine, including: a plurality of layers of a structural material, wherein each layer of the plurality of layers of the structural material are separated from each other by at least one layer of an impact absorbing material, the at least one layer of impact absorbing material being different from the structural material and the impact absorbing material having a radial thickness that is greater than a ra...