US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on April 14 for "Method and unit for controlling a motor assembly" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,486, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Method and unit for controlling a motor assembly" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Etienne Bernard Lepretre (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Baptiste Jean-Marie Renault (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Seif Eddine Benattia (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a motor assembly. This motor assembly includes at least a first electric machine and a gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine includes a low-pressure shaft and a high-pressure shaft. The electric machine is coupled to the low-pressure shaft, and the control method incl...