ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,916, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER (Blagnac, France).

"Integrated unit for transferring rotary power from an electrical chain for de-icing propeller blades and the nose cone of a turbomachine" was invented by Djemouai Hadjidj (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated unit for de-icing the propeller blades and the nose of a turbomachine including: a rotary transformer including a static part and a rotary part; a DC-to-AC voltage converter connected at its output to the static part of the rotary transformer and intended to be connected at its input to a DC electrical power supp...