US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on Aug. 18 for "Aircraft turbine engine with a hybrid compressor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,988, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Aircraft turbine engine with a hybrid compressor" was invented by Nicolas Claude Parmentier (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and William Henri Joseph Riera (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an aircraft turbine engine (101) which comprises, downstream of the low pressure compressor of its low pressure body (104) and upstream of its combustion chamber (102), an electric motor (206) which is configured to rotate a rotor blade ring so as to generate a flow of air. Moreover, the rotational speed of the electric machine rotor is independent of ...