ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,659, issued on May 12, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Air purging arrangement" was invented by Hugues Pellerin (Montreal) and Eric Langevin (Lery, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine fluid system comprises an open fluid circuit connected to a tank for distributing a fluid to a plurality of components. A component of the plurality of components has an enclosure having an internal chamber with an inlet port and an outlet port fluidly connected to the fluid circuit. The outlet port is positioned at a bottom end of the internal chamber. An outlet port extension tube extends upwardly...