US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Rolls-Royce on July 1 for "Uncommanded or uncontrollable high thrust detection and mitigation" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,211, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Uncommanded or uncontrollable high thrust detection and mitigation" was invented by Govindaraj Kalyanasamy (Indianapolis), Mihir Desai (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Andrew Lee (Indianapolis) and Mark Collett (Derby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mitigating uncommanded or uncontrollable high thrust in a gas turbine engine is provided. The method may comprise pumping fuel to a combustor from a fuel tank, controlling a flow rate of the fuel to the combustor with a metering valve, sp...