US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Feb. 17 for "Additively manufactured combustor liner v-band cooling ring" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,608, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Additively manufactured combustor liner v-band cooling ring" was invented by Jacob Weber (Toronto), Assaf Farah (Brossard, Canada), Pierrot Duchesne (Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Canada), Katherine Little (Toronto) and Daniel Plante (Terrebonne, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A v-band ring and a combustor incorporating the same includes a monolithic body extending circumferentially entirely about an axis and extending axially parallel to the axis from ends of the v-band ring. The monolithic body includes an inner surface that faces inward towa...