US Patent Issued to GE Energy Power Conversion France on July 29 for "Counter rotating propeller pod electrical arrangement" (French, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,136, issued on July 29, was assigned to GE Energy Power Conversion France (Villebon-sur-Yvette, France).

"Counter rotating propeller pod electrical arrangement" was invented by Lionel Julliand (Belfort, France), Jorgen Jorde (Bergen, Norway), Theo Grall (Belfort, France), Mathieu Bittermann (Champigneulles, France), Nicolas Leboeuf (Champigneulles, France) and Henri Baerd (Villebon-sur-Yvette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a pod propulsion system including first and second counter rotating propellers for providing thrust to propel a marine vessel. The pod propulsion system includes a first electric mot...