US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Oct. 21 for "Oil de-aerator for aircraft engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,920, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Oil de-aerator for aircraft engine" was invented by Audrey Brouillet (Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Canada), Daniel Alecu (Brampton, Canada) and Felix Gauthier (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine, has: an oil circuit fluidly connecting an oil reservoir to components of the aircraft engine; and a de-aerator fluidly connected to the oil circuit and located downstream of the components relative to a flow of the oil through the oil circuit, the de-aerator feeding the flow of the oil into the reservoir, the de-aerator havin...