US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Oct. 21 for "Local stiffening for gas turbine engine casing" (Canadian, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,900, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Local stiffening for gas turbine engine casing" was invented by Morgan Demenois (Montreal), Negin Abaeian (Westmount, Canada), Tomasz Olech (Rzeszow, Poland), Raghavendra Pendyala (Montreal) and Domenico Di Florio (Saint Lazare, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine under this disclosure could be said to include a compressor section, a combustor and a turbine section. At least one casing surrounds at least one of the compressor and turbine section. The at least one casing is formed of sheet metal, and has at least one poten...