US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on May 26 for "Operating aircraft propulsion system during engine-inoperative event" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,974, issued on May 26, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Operating aircraft propulsion system during engine-inoperative event" was invented by Patrick Gates (Westport, Canada) and Melanie Papillon (St-Bruno de Montarville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating an aircraft having a first propulsion unit and a second propulsion unit. During this method a propulsion unit-inoperative event is identified where the first propulsion unit is inoperative and the second propulsion unit is operative. A trimmed parameter for the second propulsion unit is converted to an actual pa...