US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 3 for "Dual-chemistry propulsion system for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,416, issued on June 3, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Dual-chemistry propulsion system for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Venkata Prasad Atluri (Novi, Mich.), Madhusudan Raghavan (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Shuonan Xu (Troy, Mich.) and Hanho Yun (Oakland Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system in an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft includes two or more subsystems. Each subsystem includes an energy storage systems (ESS). Each ESS is coupled to one or more motors that actuate one or more rotors of the eVTOL aircraft and includes one o...