US Patent Issued to Unison Industries, General Electric on June 30 for "Hybrid turbine starter for a gas turbine engine" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,092, issued on June 30, was assigned to Unison Industries LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.) and General Electric Co. (Evandale, Ohio).

"Hybrid turbine starter for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Phuc Huynh (Federal Way, Wash.) and Nagendra Baddam (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Hybrid Turbine Starter (HTS) for a gas turbine engine. The HTS has a turbine member, a turbine shaft, an electric machine, and a controller module. The electric machine having a rotor and a stator. The stator has a set of windings. The controller module is configured to supply, during a first timeframe, a first electrical pulse. The controller ...