ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,470, issued on June 23, was assigned to Wright Electric Inc..

"Machine cooling system" was invented by Colin Tschida (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), Piotr Kurowski (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), Earl Fairall (Ballston Spa, N.Y.) and Patrick Biel (Ballston Spa, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft has an electric motor to generate thrust and a power electronic module to provide power to the electric motor. The power electronic (PE) module has an output power to fluidly couple the electric motor and the PE module. The aircraft has an alternating current (AC) lead to electrically couple the PE module and the electric motor by way of the output ...