ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,746, issued on April 7, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Aircraft propulsion system with clocked electric machine and accessory gearbox" was invented by Bruno Chatelois (Boucherville, Canada), Paul Weaver (Chateauguay, Canada) and Eric S. Durocher (Boucherville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system is provided for an aircraft. This propulsion system includes a geartrain, a propulsor rotor, a turbine engine core, an electric machine and an accessory gearbox system. The propulsor rotor is disposed to a first side of the geartrain. The turbine engine core is disposed to a second sid...