ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,342, issued on May 5, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Turbine exhaust case with stiffening brace" was invented by Lorenzo Sanzari (Montreal) and Remy Synnott (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust system for an aircraft engine, has: an exhaust case extending around a central axis and defining openings; exhaust ports secured to the exhaust case and being in register with the openings and protruding away from the exhaust case in a direction having a radial component relative to the central axis, the exhaust ports extending circumferentially around port axes being transverse to the ...