ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,152, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).
"Adaptive battery charging system and method" was invented by Frederic Lacaux (Kirkland, Wash.), Eugene Solodovnik (Kenmore, Wash.), Vyacheslav Khozikov (Seattle), John Anthony Trela (Seattle), Kamiar Jahanbakhsh Karimi (Kirkland, Wash.) and Shengyi Liu (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft adaptive battery charging system is provided. The adaptive battery charging system comprises: a battery system; a bidirectional converter, wherein the bidirectional converter is capable of an inverter mode and a rectifier mode; an alternating current (AC) motor...