US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 17 for "Architecture for an electric power generator for aviation" (Ohio, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,785, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Architecture for an electric power generator for aviation" was invented by Jeremiah Vannest (Columbus, Ohio), Lijun Gao (Renton, Wash.), Julia Zhang (Dublin, Ohio) and Shengyi Liu (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and/or method for an aircraft that provides a novel independent-speed variable-frequency generator for aviation power generation. The generator architecture utilizes a 2-stage generator architecture with a wound rotor PM exciter (PME) that provides excitation to the rotor of a generator. A rotating bi-directional AC...