ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,427, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Conditionally regulated hybrid electric HVDC architecture" was invented by Carlos Eduardo Vieira de Souza (Huntley, Ill.) and Jung Muk Choe (Glastonbury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining an operating mode of a hybrid electric propulsion system. The hybrid electric propulsion system includes a conditionally regulated high voltage direct current (HVDC) architecture. The conditionally regulated HVDC architecture includes a first switchable circuit formed between an HVDC bus, an HVDC electrical source, and a bi-directio...