US Patent Issued to SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES on Aug. 19 for "Hybrid-electric propulsion architecture and method for dissipating electrical energy in such an architecture" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,124, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES (Bordes, France).

"Hybrid-electric propulsion architecture and method for dissipating electrical energy in such an architecture" was invented by Thomas Klonowski (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Thomas Michel Andre Gerard Barraco (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Camel Serghine (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid/electric propulsion architecture for a multi-rotor rotary wing aircraft, including an electricity generator driven by an internal combustion engine, and configured to operate in motor mode, a rectifier configured to convert an alternating cu...