US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Emergency start of a gas turbine engine" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,340, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Emergency start of a gas turbine engine" was invented by Jeffrey Lawrence (Indianapolis), Peter Schenk (Indianapolis), Douglas Keith Schetzel II (Indianapolis), Jacob Ward Harral (Indianapolis) and Brian Joseph Huber (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A starting apparatus for a first gas turbine engine of a plurality of gas turbine engines of an aircraft. The apparatus includes an air turbine starter, an electric machine, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive an emerg...