US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 5 for "In-flight hybrid electric engine shutdown" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,335, issued on May 5, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"In-flight hybrid electric engine shutdown" was invented by David Alexander Hiett (Cincinnati), Stefan Joseph Cafaro (Chapel Hill, N.C.), David Marion Ostdiek (Liberty Township, Ohio), Robert Jon McQuiston (Cincinnati), Paul Robert Gemin (Cincinnati) and Jeffrey Douglas Rambo (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a hybrid-electric propulsion system of an aircraft is provided. The hybrid-electric propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine having a high pressure system, a low pressure system, and an electric machine coupled to o...