US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for lifter motor cooling in evtol aircraft" (Colorado, Texas, Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,832, issued on Oct. 7, 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: "An apparatus for aircraft propulsion includes a propeller and a hybrid-cooled electric engine mounted to a support structure and configured to rotate the propeller. The electric engine is located in an enclosure, with a first heat transfer element thermally coupled to the electric eng...