US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on Feb. 17 for "Method and device for controlling a thermal and electrical power plant for a rotorcraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,524, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane, France).

"Method and device for controlling a thermal and electrical power plant for a rotorcraft" was invented by Christophe Serr (Simiane-Collongue, France), Olivier Honnorat (Aix en Provence, France), Alexandre Madeira (Aix en Provence, France) and Jean-Christophe Coquillat (Riez, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a thermal and electrical power plant for setting in motion at least one rotary member of a rotorcraft, the power plant comprising at least one heat engine and an electrical system provided with at least one electric machin...