US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Aug. 25 for "Mistuning alternate blades in a gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,357, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Mistuning alternate blades in a gas turbine engine" was invented by Ignatius Theratil (Mississauga, Canada), Krishna Prasad Balike (Brampton, Canada), Ernest Adique (Brampton, Canada), Anthony Bruni (Toronto), Nicola Houle (Montreal) and Karan Anand (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a propulsor, a compressor section and a turbine section, at least one of the propulsor, compressor section and turbine section having at least one row of blades mounted in a rotor. There is a plurality of circumferenti...