US Patent Issued to RTX on April 14 for "High efficiency aircraft parallel hybrid gas turbine electric propulsion system" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,276, issued on April 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"High efficiency aircraft parallel hybrid gas turbine electric propulsion system" was invented by Charles E. Lents (Amston, Conn.), Christopher J. Hanlon (Sturbridge, Mass.), Larry W. Hardin (East Hartford, Conn.) and Jonathan Rheaume (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section having a first compressor and a second compressor, the second compressor having a higher pressure than the first compressor, and a turbine section having a first turbine and a second turbine, the second turbine having a higher pr...