US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Oct. 27 for "Battery contactors and contactor control systems for aircraft batteries" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,104, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Battery contactors and contactor control systems for aircraft batteries" was invented by Raphael Gariepy (Montreal), Fraz Ahmad Kharal (Brampton, Canada), Antwan Shenouda (Mississauga, Canada) and Remi Robache (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a battery, an electrical distribution system, a first control channel, and a second control channel. The battery includes a plurality of battery strings. The electrical distribution system includes at least one string contactor for each of the plurality ...