US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Aug. 4 for "Control for electrically assisted turbines" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,748, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Control for electrically assisted turbines" was invented by Richard Freer (Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, there is provided a method of accelerating a gas turbine engine. The method includes adding torque to a core of the gas turbine engine to accelerate rotation of the core by controlling fuel flow to a plurality of fuel injectors of the gas turbine engine. The method also includes adding torque to the core by powering an electric machine that is operatively...