US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Feb. 17 for "Plenum closure panel with integrated airflow direction device" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,450, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Plenum closure panel with integrated airflow direction device" was invented by Eray Akcayoz (Cote-Saint-Luc, Canada), Mohammed Ennacer (Longueuil, Canada), Mark Cunningham (Montreal-Ouest, Canada) and David Denis (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plenum assembly for a compressor has a plenum housing defining a radially inward entry to a compressor and an outer circumference, and at least two open areas in the outer circumferences which are defined by at least two plenum flanges; an inlet duct connected to a first plenum flang...