US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Oct. 27 for "Structural casing for gas turbine engine and method for adjusting tip clearance in a gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,662, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Structural casing for gas turbine engine and method for adjusting tip clearance in a gas turbine engine" was invented by Guy Lefebvre (St. Bruno, Canada) and Remy Synnott (St. Jean sur Richelieu, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outer structural case of a turbine casing assembly, including: a plurality of threaded adjustment openings located about a periphery of the outer structural case, the plurality of threaded adjustment openings extending completely through the periphery of the outer structural case; and a plurality of threaded sec...