US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Oct. 28 for "Gas turbine engine component with integral heat exchanger" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,913, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Gas turbine engine component with integral heat exchanger" was invented by Eric S. Durocher (Boucherville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This engine assembly includes a vane array and a heat exchanger integrated with the vane array. The vane array includes an inner platform, an outer platform and a plurality of vanes. The inner platform extends circumferentially about a centerline and forms an inner peripheral boundary of a flowpath through the vane array. The outer platform extends circ...