US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on March 17 for "Engine characteristics matching" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,976, issued on March 17, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Engine characteristics matching" was invented by Leonid Guerchkovitch (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada), Aaron J. Kaufman (Manchester, Conn.), Boris Karpman (Marlborough, Conn.) and Manuj Dhingra (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a multi-engine aircraft includes receiving input for commanded thrust and modifying the commanded thrust using a model of an incumbent powerplant to generate a modified commanded thrust for matching aircraft performance with a new powerplant to the aircraft performance with the in...