US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Aug. 25 for "Aircraft gas turbine engine impeller with a trailing edge that is non-linear or angled or irregularly-shaped" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,424, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Aircraft gas turbine engine impeller with a trailing edge that is non-linear or angled or irregularly-shaped" was invented by Jason Nichols (Mississauga, Canada), Hien Duong (Mississauga, Canada) and Hong Yu (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal compressor assembly of a gas turbine engine of an aircraft is provided. The centrifugal compressor assembly includes an impeller having a hub, vanes and a shroud surrounding the hub and the vanes to form a flow path from an inducer portion at an upstream side of the impeller to ...