US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Dec. 23 for "Passive jet system arranged at front wheels of a vehicle" (Michigan, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,176, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Passive jet system arranged at front wheels of a vehicle" was invented by Vishal Raul (Northville, Mich.), Taeyoung Han (Troy, Mich.), Shailendra Kaushik (Novi, Mich.) and Bahram Khalighi (Holladay, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive jet system for disrupting an airflow at a surface of a front wheel for a vehicle includes a duct including an inlet exposed to an airflow, an outlet fluidically directed toward a forward surface of the front wheel, and a passage having a flow-accelerating profile operable to increase a velocity of the airfl...