US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on July 21 for "Hybrid aircraft propulsion system with electric motor alignment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,500, issued on July 21, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Hybrid aircraft propulsion system with electric motor alignment" was invented by Bruno Chatelois (Boucherville, Canada) and Paul Weaver (Chateauguay, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid aircraft propulsion system includes a first motor operatively connected to a propulsor via a first motor driveshaft and is mounted to an engine static structure through engine mounts operable to adjust a position of the first motor and the first motor driveshaft. A second motor is an electric motor having a second motor driveshaft which is coaxial to ...