US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Rolls-Royce on Aug. 25 for "Electrical energy system for barring rotor" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,597, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce plc (London).

"Electrical energy system for barring rotor" was invented by Peter Schenk (Indianapolis) and Mark Angelo Tanner (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes an electrical machine electrically configured to generate electrical energy used by one or more components of a gas-turbine engine; an energy storage system; and a controller electrically connected to the energy storage system and configured to receive electrical energy from the energy storage system, wherein, in response to the ga...