US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Aug. 25 for "Method of operating an aircraft engine and fuel system using multiple fuel types" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,387, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method of operating an aircraft engine and fuel system using multiple fuel types" was invented by Sean Durand (Brossard, Canada), Harris Shafique (Longueuil, Canada) and David Waddleton (Candiac, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fuel system can have a jet fuel subsystem having a jet fuel conduit extending from a first reservoir area to a fuel nozzle across an auxiliary system operable using a flow of the jet fuel, at least one fuel delivery system operable to circulate a controlled flow rate of the jet fuel within said conduit and acro...