US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce Deutschland on July 21 for "Hybrid propulsion system cockpit interface" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,879, issued on July 21, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany).

"Hybrid propulsion system cockpit interface" was invented by Stephen Andrew Long (Indianapolis), David Virgil Kopeschka (Indianapolis), Michael P. Dougherty (Indianapolis) and Mark Ian McLaren (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a throttle control for managing power in a hybrid propulsion system that includes an electrical propulsion unit configured to operate using electrical energy sourced from an electrical energy storage system (ESS) an...