ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,978, issued on March 17, was assigned to ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS INC. (North Logan, Utah).

"Electrically powered propeller systems including an exhaust system for battery thermal management" was invented by Ryan Bohm (North Logan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for an electrically powered aircraft can comprise: a truss configured to couple to a structure of an aircraft; a battery system supported by the truss, the battery system including a first array of battery modules and a second array of battery modules, the first array of battery modules operably coupled to the second array of battery modules: and an exhaust syste...