US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.U. on Oct. 6 for "Energy recovery system and method for an aircraft" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,925, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.U. (Getafe, Spain).

"Energy recovery system and method for an aircraft" was invented by Miguel Bellido Lopez (Getafe, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy recovery system and method for an aircraft having propellers. Specifically, the system and a method recover energy during the descent phase by setting the aircraft engines in propulsive mode or in windmill mode as needed. In windmill mode, the wind drives the propellers to generate electrical energy which may be stored. A pitch angle of the blade of the propellers may be changed."

The patent was filed on July 2,...