US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on May 26 for "Combustor inlet plenum and baffle" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,180, issued on May 26, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Combustor inlet plenum and baffle" was invented by Paul Weaver (Chateauguay, Canada), Michel Desjardins (Saint-Hubert, Canada) and Guillaume Landry-Drolet (Boucherville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inlet plenum for a gas turbine engine combustor includes first and second inlet ducts fluidly connected to a distribution duct. The distribution duct extends circumferentially about an axis to fluidly connect the inlet ducts to an outlet at a radially inner boundary. The first and second inlet ducts fluidly communicate with a compressor of...