US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on July 21 for "Control system and method for powering a low inertia generator with a gas turbine engine and maintaining speed governing tolerance" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,132, issued on July 21, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Control system and method for powering a low inertia generator with a gas turbine engine and maintaining speed governing tolerance" was invented by Mehdi Abedinpour Fallah (Longueuil, Canada), Poi Loon Tang (Coquitlam, Canada), Richard Freer (Mont-Sainte-Hilaire, Canada) and Sylvain Lamarre (Boucherville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a generator power demand (GPD) signal for a gas generator of a gas turbine engine (GTE). The method may also include applying a smoothing filter to the GPD signal to create a...