US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on Sept. 29 for "Providing energy in an aircraft using droop control" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,025, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Providing energy in an aircraft using droop control" was invented by Victor Dos Santos (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Florent Rougier (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Isabelle Florent (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing energy in an aircraft, including a DC bus; at least one low-pressure electrical source and at least one high-pressure electrical source. The apparatus further includes a system for calculating a droop gain for each electrical source, based on at least one operating characteristic of the turbine engine; and for each elect...