US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on Oct. 6 for "Ice protection system using waste heat recovery" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,922, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Ice protection system using waste heat recovery" was invented by Sunil Madhukar Makhe (Pune, India), Parimal Maity (Pune, India) and Christopher T. Cantrell (Jackson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice protection system for use with an aircraft including an electric motor for driving a propulsion structure of the aircraft. The electric motor is cooled by a heat transfer fluid that flows through or by the electric motor to extract heat from the electric motor. The ice protection system uses the heat transfer fluid heated by the electric motor to pro...