US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on May 5 for "Bearing with outer sleeve for squeeze film damping" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,338, issued on May 5, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Bearing with outer sleeve for squeeze film damping" was invented by Lorenzo Sanzari (Montreal), Rose-Elizabeth Banville (Longueuil, Canada) and Mike Fontaine (Boucherville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine, has: a shaft rotatable about a central axis; a bearing housing extending around the shaft and defining a bearing cavity; a bearing located within the bearing cavity, the bearing rotatably supporting the shaft, the bearing having rolling members disposed radially between an inner race engaged to the shaft and an outer race...