ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,073, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).
"Propulsion channel for aircraft" was invented by Christophe Ludovic Jean-Claude Viguier (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Stephane Petibon (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Florent Rougier (Moissy-Cramayel, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion channel for aircraft at least one first dual-fed polyphase asynchronous rotating electric machine configured to be mechanically coupled to a turbine engine. The propulsion channel further includes at least one second polyphase rotating electric machine electrically coupled to the first asynchronous rotating electric machine, and a cont...