US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Aug. 4 for "System and method for detecting seal leaks in a gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,020, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"System and method for detecting seal leaks in a gas turbine engine" was invented by Jeremy Gonzalez (Montreal) and Jong Park (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and system for inspecting a sealed compartment within a gas turbine engine is provided. The method includes using at least one acoustic transmitter to produce at least one emitted acoustic signal into a compartment interior cavity. The acoustic transmitter is in communication with the at least one port. The array of acoustic sensors is used to sense acoustic sig...