US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for filling a fuel manifold of a gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,013, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Systems and methods for filling a fuel manifold of a gas turbine engine" was invented by Andrea Henning (London, Canada), Philippe Beauchesne-Martel (Brossard, Canada), Louis Duranleau-Hendrickx (Montreal), Poi Loon Tang (Coquitlam, Canada) and Ian Dizon (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to exiting from a non-full non-filling state of a secondary manifold of a gas turbine engine, the method of filling the secondary fuel manifold of the engine includes: setting at least one engine schedule limit based on a measured value of ...