US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on July 28 for "Containment ring for gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,799, issued on July 28, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Containment ring for gas turbine engine" was invented by Nathan Tomes (Hamilton, Canada) and Tyler Richardson (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casing for a gas turbine engine, including: an inner surface portion; a pair of wall portions extending radially outward from the inner surface portion; and a containment ring located between the pair of wall portions, the containment ring including an inner ring, an intermediate ring, and an outer ring, the intermediate ring being located between the inner ring and the outer ring, wherein the c...