US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on July 14 for "Torque prediction using model predictive control" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,446, issued on July 14, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Torque prediction using model predictive control" was invented by Ezzat Meshkinfam (Mississauga, Canada), Xuening Lu (Oakville, Canada) and Thomas Trevor Ricci (Pointe-Claire, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining multiple parameters associated with operation of a turbine engine. The method also includes applying a model predictive control algorithm to the parameters to predict a future torque value of a shaft of the turbine engine, the future torque value indicating a likelihood of future shaft shear. The method fur...