US Patent Issued to General Electric, GE Avio on April 21 for "Controlling hybrid-electric or all-electric powertrains and propulsion systems" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,314, issued on April 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.) and GE Avio S.r.l. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Controlling hybrid-electric or all-electric powertrains and propulsion systems" was invented by Gregory L. Detweiler (Cincinnati), Stefano Ettorre (Bari, Italy) and Thomas William Brown (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid-electric or all-electric powertrain may include a power control unit electrically coupled to an energy storage system. The power control unit may determine a power level command based at least in part on a power level request for the powertrain, and a power level-UCL and/...