US Patent Issued to RTX on July 7 for "Method and apparatus for using model predictive control for hybrid electric propulsion system" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,424, issued on July 7, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and apparatus for using model predictive control for hybrid electric propulsion system" was invented by Martin Amari (Glastonbury, Conn.), Joshua Adams (New Hartford, Conn.) and Kyle Christopher Musselman (Vernon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a hybrid electric propulsion (HEP) system includes determining a target fan speed for a HEP system. The HEP system includes a gas turbine engine and at least one electric motor configured to rotate a respective shaft of the gas turbine engine. The method also includes determining an amount of electr...