US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on May 26 for "Bifurcated exhaust duct for hybrid aircraft powerplant" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,226, issued on May 26, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Bifurcated exhaust duct for hybrid aircraft powerplant" was invented by Eric S. Durocher (Boucherville, Canada), Bruno Chatelois (Boucherville, Canada) and Michel Labrecque (Ste-Julie, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft system is provided that includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, an exhaust duct and a flowpath. The exhaust duct includes an upstream duct section, a plurality of intermediate duct sections and a downstream duct section. A first of the intermediate duct sections is fluidly discrete fro...