US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on May 5 for "Turbine engine airfoil" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,330, issued on May 5, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Turbine engine airfoil" was invented by Abdulhalim Twahir (La Prairie, Canada), Panagiota Tsifourdaris (Montreal) and Francis Gemme (Sainte-Julie, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for a turbine engine. This apparatus includes an airfoil, and the airfoil includes a first end, a second end, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side and a suction side. The leading edge and the trailing edge are joined by the pressure side and the suction side to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending in a spanwise direction ...