US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Oct. 21 for "Hybrid electric propulsion system with regeneration and method for operating the same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,824, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Hybrid electric propulsion system with regeneration and method for operating the same" was invented by Kevin Nguyen (Montreal), Xuening Lu (Oakville, Canada), Louis-Philippe Larose (St-Sabine, Canada), Carmine Lisio (Laval, Canada) and Eric Ostiguy (St-Basile-le-Grand, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of regenerating an electric power storage unit for an aircraft hybrid electric propulsion (HEP) system is provided. The HEP system includes a thermal engine, an electric motor, an electric power storage unit, a primary gearbox, and a...