ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,658, issued on May 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Stacked approach for distributed hybrid propulsion with scalability and modularity" was invented by Martin Amari (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Zubair A. Baig (South Windsor, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid power and propulsion system of a vehicle is provided and includes an engine assembly coupled to a common bus via a first plug type and including a motor-generator configured to generate electricity, a storage element coupled to the common bus via a second plug type and configured to store the electricity, a drive assembly coupled to the common bus via a ...