US Patent Issued to HELIOS Aeronautics on Oct. 21 for "Hydrogen-solar integrated energy system and method for aircraft" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,135, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HELIOS Aeronautics Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Hydrogen-solar integrated energy system and method for aircraft" was invented by Eric Gavizon (Aventura, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent discloses a powerplant for an aerial vehicle comprised of Perovskite-Silicon tandem photovoltaic solar cells covering the wings and fuselage, a lithium-sulfur battery, a high-pressure unitized regenerative proton exchange membrane ("PEM") device, and hydrogen tanks. The PEM device has a fuel-cell mode and an electrolysis mode. During level flight, the PEM device operates in fuel-cell mode, converting...