US Patent Issued to Analytical Mechanics Associates, United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA on Sept. 8 for "Propeller" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,982, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Analytical Mechanics Associates Inc. (Hampton, Va.) and United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Propeller" was invented by Matthew N. Gray (Hampton, Va.), Caleb Robb (Newport News, Va.), Todd Ferrante (Newport News, Va.) and Albion H Bowers (Edwards, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved blade designs for turbomachinery, such as blade designs for propellers, have non-constant airfoil distributions and/or coefficient of lift distributions across the blade span. An improved blade may include the following three blade sections between a blade ro...