US Patent Issued to Unison Industries, General Electric on Sept. 8 for "Hybrid turbine starter for a gas turbine engine" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,650, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Unison Industries LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.) and General Electric Co. (Evendale, 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 Power Electronic Converter (PEC). The electric machine has a rotor and an electric machine drive shaft. The PEC has a current sensor, a voltage sensor, and a controller module. The controller module is configured to s...