US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on May 12 for "Hybrid aircraft power plant with ventilated exhaust duct cavity" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,660, issued on May 12, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Hybrid aircraft power plant with ventilated exhaust duct cavity" was invented by Michel Labrecque (Sainte-Julie, Canada), Bruno Chatelois (Boucherville, Canada) and Eric S. Durocher (Boucherville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid aircraft power plant includes an air mover for propelling an aircraft, a gas turbine engine operable to drive the air mover, and an electric machine operable as a motor to drive the air mover. The gas turbine engine includes a turbine disk for extracting energy from a stream of combustion gas and an exhaust...