US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Oct. 7 for "Aircraft air system with dedicated compressor(s)" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,667, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Aircraft air system with dedicated compressor(s)" was invented by Michel Bousquet (Longueuil, Canada), Kevin Nguyen (Montreal) and Ismael Bencheikh (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft system includes a nacelle, an aircraft component, an aircraft propulsion system and an electric compressor. The aircraft component is arranged outside of the nacelle. The aircraft propulsion system includes a propulsor rotor and a powerplant configured to drive rotation of the propulsor rotor. The powe...