US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 15 for "Aircraft hybrid electric propulsion and attitude controller" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,191, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft hybrid electric propulsion and attitude controller" was invented by Zubair A. Baig (South Windsor, Conn.), Martin Amari (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Ninad Joshi (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft hybrid electrical propulsion (HEP) propulsion and attitude control system includes a propulsion system, electrical system and HEP controller. The propulsion system includes at least one propulsor and at least one electric motor configured to drive the at least one propulsor to generate to generate one or both of thrust and lift. The elect...