US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on March 17 for "Aircraft propulsion system with engine ratings as a function of system components" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,977, issued on March 17, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Aircraft propulsion system with engine ratings as a function of system components" was invented by David Meisels (Montreal) and Richard Freer (St-Basile-le-Grand, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and system for operating a hybrid-electric propulsion system is provided. The system has a thermal engine and an electrical propulsion subsystem having a plurality of components. The method includes providing a set of original engine ratings for operating the hybrid-electric propulsion system, the original engine ratings are based on...