US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on July 28 for "De-aerator seal of oil system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,801, issued on July 28, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"De-aerator seal of oil system" was invented by Cedric Chan Chuen (Laval, Canada) and Hugues Pellerin (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A de-aerator includes a de-aerator housing having a fluid inlet through which a mixture of oil and air enters, an air-oil outlet through which mixture of oil and air of lower oil concentration exits, and an oil outlet through which a flow of oil exits. An impeller is positioned in the de-aerator housing and is driven about an impeller axis to separate oil from the mixture of air and oil and direct the oil...