US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Oct. 21 for "System and method for controlling an aircraft electrical distribution system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,826, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"System and method for controlling an aircraft electrical distribution system" was invented by Raphael Gariepy (Montreal), Simon Lam (Scarborough, Canada), Remi Robache (Montreal), Antwan Shenouda (Mississauga, Canada), Richard Freer (St-Basile-le-Grand, Canada) and Ninad Joshi (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for an aircraft includes an aircraft electrical distribution bus, a battery, and a control system. The battery includes a plurality of battery strings. Each battery string includes a string contactor. The contro...