US Patent Issued to DRAGOON TECHNOLOGY on July 14 for "Hybrid electric drive systems for unmanned aircraft systems" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,574, issued on July 14, was assigned to DRAGOON TECHNOLOGY LLC (Oro Valley, Ariz.).

"Hybrid electric drive systems for unmanned aircraft systems" was invented by Carlos Murphy (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Jason Douglas (Oro Valley, Ariz.) and Sean Culbertson (Oro Valley, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid powerplant can include a main power bus; an engine; a generator coupled to the engine, the generator in electrical communication with the main power bus; an energy storage; an electrical switch disposed electrically between the main power bus and the energy storage; and a controller in electrical communication with the electrical...