US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on May 13 for "Overspeed and/or overtorque protection for hybrid electric aircraft propulsion system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,991, issued on May 13, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Overspeed and/or overtorque protection for hybrid electric aircraft propulsion system" was invented by Yusuf Syed (Oakville, Canada), Thomas Trevor Ricci (Kirkland, Canada) and James Robert Jarvo (Long Sault, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid-electric powerplant (HEP) of an aircraft comprises a thermal engine providing a first torque input to the HEP and an electric motor providing a second torque input to the HEP. A power management system connected to one or both of the thermal engine and the electric motor comprises an engine con...