US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 15 for "Aircraft propulsion system with hybrid-electric powerplant" (Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,190, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft propulsion system with hybrid-electric powerplant" was invented by Thomas E. Clark (Wells, Maine) and Murat Yazici (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft system includes a powerplant configured to drive rotation of a propulsor rotor during a first mode and a second mode. The powerplant includes a turbine engine, a first electric machine and a power coupler. A first rotating structure includes a first turbine rotor disposed along a core flowpath. The first electric machine is configured as an electric motor during the second mode...