US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on July 14 for "Uncontrollable high thrust (UHT) protection for hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,513, issued on July 14, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Uncontrollable high thrust (UHT) protection for hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion systems" was invented by Thomas Trevor Ricci (Pointe-Claire, Canada), Michael R. Mark (Montreal), Remi Robache (Montreal), Antwan Shenouda (Mississauga, Canada), James Jarvo (Long Sault, Canada) and Michael Hanna (Beaconsfield, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system includes a propulsor, an engine, an electrical assembly, a controller, and an uncontrollable high thrust (UHT) protection assembly. The engine includes a fuel system. The engine is...