US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Feb. 10 for "Emergency energy protection assembly for hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,419, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Emergency energy protection assembly for hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion systems" was invented by Thomas Trevor Ricci (Pointe-Claire, Canada), Michael Hanna (Beaconsfield, Canada), Remi Robache (Montreal), Antwan Shenouda (Mississauga, Canada), Raphael Gariepy (Montreal), Fraz Ahmad Kharal (Brampton, Canada) and Ezzat Meshkinfam (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system includes a propulsor, an engine, an electrical assembly, and an emergency energy protection assembly. The engine includes a fuel system. The fu...