US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for identifying a condition of gas turbine engine seals" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,783, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Systems and methods for identifying a condition of gas turbine engine seals" was invented by Nicolas Marchand (St-Bruno, Canada), Velda Wong (Toronto), Ehsan Farvardin (Longueuil, Canada), Benoit Trudel (Montreal), Sri Krishna Subramanian (Mississauga, Canada), Gabriel St-Laurent (Longueuil, Canada) and Benjamin Z. Seaman (Pooler, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for an aircraft propulsion system includes a case assembly, at least one seal, a first pressure sensor, and a computing system. The case assembly forms a cavity. The at lea...