US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on March 17 for "Active de-aerator for aircraft power plant" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,912, issued on March 17, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Active de-aerator for aircraft power plant" was invented by Gabriel Naccache (Longueuil, Canada), Ivan Sidorovich Paradiso (Toronto) and Hugues Pellerin (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A de-aerator for an aircraft power plant, has: a housing defining an air-oil inlet, an oil outlet, and an air outlet, the housing having a forward end and a rearward end opposite the forward end, the air-oil inlet defined at the forward end; a rotor received within the housing and rotatable relative to the housing about a rotation axis; and a s...