US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on March 3 for "Propulsor reverse rotation protection for hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion systems" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,325, issued on March 3, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Propulsor reverse rotation 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) and Stephen Minshull (Bromsgrove, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system includes a propulsor, an engine, an electrical assembly, and a protection circuit. The engine is coupled with the propulsor. The electrical assembly includes a battery, a motor control unit, an electric motor, an...