US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 30 for "Autonomous energy system for an aircraft" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,705, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Airbus Operations S.L. (Getafe, Spain).

"Autonomous energy system for an aircraft" was invented by Ignacio Crespo Guiterrez (Getafe, Spain) and Carlos Hernandez Hidalgo (Getafe, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous energy system for an aircraft with a high voltage network, a main power source, an energy storage, a bidirectional DC-DC converter, and a power control management system connected to: the high voltage network to measure its voltage variations, and to the energy storage and to the DC-DC converter forming an energy buffer module providing/receiving a fixed voltage setpo...