US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Sept. 9 for "Rotor blade with apertured cooling air deflector" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,712, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Rotor blade with apertured cooling air deflector" was invented by Masoud Roshan Fekr (St-Lambert, Canada), Othmane Leghzaouni (Boucherville, Canada) and Robert Huszar (Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor blade includes an airfoil, a root, a cooling air passage and a cooling air deflector. The root extends axially along an axis between a first end of the root and a second end of the root. The root extends laterally between a first side of the root and a second side of the root. The root projects radially in...