US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Nov. 3 for "Hybrid gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,662, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Hybrid gas turbine engine" was invented by Herve Turcotte (Sainte-Julie, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid multi-spool gas turbine engine, has: a LP spool and a HP spool rotatable about a central axis, the LP spool having an LP compressor and an LP turbine engaged to the LP compressor via an LP shaft, the LP shaft engaged to a rotatable load at a first end thereof, the HP spool having an HP turbine and an HP compressor engaged to the HP turbine via a HP shaft; an accessory gearbox (AGB) engaged to both of the LP shaft and the HP shaf...