US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on June 23 for "Fuel nozzle for an aircraft engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,964, issued on June 23, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Fuel nozzle for an aircraft engine" was invented by Jayaprakash Kannan (North York, Canada) and Aleksandar Kojovic (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine engine includes a first fuel nozzle body and a second fuel nozzle body. The first fuel nozzle body and the second fuel nozzle body form a fuel passage. The fuel passage includes a fuel accumulation chamber, an upstream fuel passage, a downstream fuel passage, and a plurality of tangential feed holes. The upstream fuel passage extends along an upstream ...