US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Aug. 4 for "Electric machine cooled with bypass air of a turbofan engine" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,772, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Electric machine cooled with bypass air of a turbofan engine" was invented by Daniel Alecu (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cooling electric machines are provided. A method for cooling an electric machine includes receiving a flow of air, expanding and cooling the air from the flow of air using a turbine, conveying the flow of air from the turbine through the electric machine to extract heat from the electric machine using the flow of air, and drawing the flow of air through the electric machine using an ai...