US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for identifying insufficient starter acceleration for an aircraft engine" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,016, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Systems and methods for identifying insufficient starter acceleration for an aircraft engine" was invented by Louis Duranleau-Hendrickx (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for an aircraft engine includes a rotational assembly, a starter, and a controller. The rotational assembly includes at least one rotor. The starter is coupled with the rotational assembly. The starter is configured to selectively drive rotation of the rotational assembly. The controller is configured to determine an acceleration threshold for a starter-assis...