US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on May 19 for "Method and apparatus for determining series arcing in a hybrid-electric propulsion system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,294, issued on May 19, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for determining series arcing in a hybrid-electric propulsion system" was invented by Alireza Gharagozloo (Boucherville, Canada) and Michael Hanna (Beaconsfield, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid-electric propulsion system is provided that includes a thermal engine, an electric motor, a battery, a battery management unit (BMU), an electrical distribution bus, an artificial intelligence (AI) model, and a monitoring system (MS) controller. The electrical distribution bus electrically connects the electric motor and...