ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,114, issued on July 21, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Aircraft engine with stator having varying pitch" was invented by Karan Anand (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine, has: an upstream stator having upstream stator vanes circumferentially distributed about a central axis; and a downstream stator having downstream stator vanes circumferentially distributed about the central axis, the downstream stator located downstream of the upstream stator relative to an airflow flowing within a core gaspath of the aircraft engine, a number of the upstream stator vanes being d...