US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Nov. 25 for "Method of manufacturing a turbine shroud segment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,055, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method of manufacturing a turbine shroud segment" was invented by Marianne Coutu (Saint-Hubert, Canada) and Marc Campomanes (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of manufacturing a turbine shroud segment for a gas turbine engine are disclosed. One method involves receiving a turbine shroud segment green part, machining an axial cooling flow passageway in the turbine shroud segment green part, and after the machining of the axial cooling flow passageway, debinding and sintering the machined turbine shroud segment green part. ...