US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND on April 7 for "Method of operating a rotorcraft in a single engine operation mode" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,070, issued on April 7, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Donauworth, Germany).

"Method of operating a rotorcraft in a single engine operation mode" was invented by Sascha Schneider (Meitingen, Germany) and Daniel Reber (Grobenzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a rotorcraft with at least one main rotor and at least two engines, comprising: determining whether the rotorcraft is operated in an AEO mode wherein the at least two engines are powering the at least one main rotor, or in a SEO mode wherein only a first engine of the at least two engines is powering the at least one main roto...