ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,270, issued on March 18, was assigned to BOOM TECHNOLOGY INC. (Centennial, Colo.).
"Parallel power source for aircraft" was invented by James Senerth (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GPU output from a ground power unit (GPU) can be converted to power suitable for starting a jet engine of an aircraft by an auto-transformer rectifier unit (ATRU) of the aircraft. Multiple ATRUs, each connected to a corresponding GPU, may output multiple ATRU outputs, and combining these multiple ATRU outputs can generate a combined power, which can satisfy the power requirements for starting a jet engine when they exceed what can be suppl...