US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on March 4 for "Systems and methods for lifter motor cooling in EVTOL aircraft" (Colorado, Texas, Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,599, issued on March 4, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for lifter motor cooling in EVTOL aircraft" was invented by Karthik Kumar Bodla (Houston), Bharat Tulsyan (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher M. Heath (Avon, Ohio), Kerry Manning (Parker, Colo.) and Alan D. Tepe (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VTOL aircraft includes a plurality of lift propellers configured to rotated by lift motors to provide vertical thrust during takeoff, landing and hovering operations. The lift propellers are configured to generate a cooling airflow to cool the lift motors during use. During a crui...