US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on Aug. 26 for "Motor and motor controller thermal management features" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,678, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Motor and motor controller thermal management features" was invented by Peter Schenk (Indianapolis), Mathew Hill (Indianapolis), Jacob Ward Harral (Indianapolis) and Michael Joseph Kabbes (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a gas turbine engine configured to provide propulsion to an aircraft and a starter system configured to start the gas turbine engine. The starter system comprises a motor controller and a closed-loop cooling system configured to cool the motor control...