US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Oct. 21 for "Multiplexed bi directional converters for hybrid electric aircraft propulsion" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,769, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Multiplexed bi directional converters for hybrid electric aircraft propulsion" was invented by Tyler W. Hayes (Rockford, Ill.) and Todd A. Spierling (Rockford, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a low pressure machine, a high pressure machine, a motor controller device, a first set of switches configured to selectively couple the low pressure machine to an inverter or a rectifier included in the motor controller device, based on a control signal, and a second set of switches configured to selectively couple the high pressure machi...