US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on May 12 for "Emergency power units" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,939, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Emergency power units" was invented by Malcolm P. MacDonald (Bloomfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, an emergency power unit system for an aircraft includes, a fuel cell system configured to generate power using a fuel and an oxidizer and to supply electrical power to an aircraft electrical bus in at least a fuel cell operational mode. An electrical storage is operatively connected to the aircraft electrical bus and directly connected to the fuel cell system to provide electrical powe...