US Patent Issued to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on May 12 for "Aircraft with boundary layer ingestion device having center position between center position of fuselage and center position of rear end portion of fuselage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,786, issued on May 12, was assigned to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Tokyo).

"Aircraft with boundary layer ingestion device having center position between center position of fuselage and center position of rear end portion of fuselage" was invented by Hiroshi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Yuzuru Yokokawa (Tokyo), Masayuki Suzuki (Tokyo), Akira Nishizawa (Tokyo), Ryuji Iijima (Tokyo) and Eiji Shima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft according to the present technology includes: a fuselage section; and a BLI propulsion section. The fuselage section has a cylindrical shape that is long in an axial direction and short in a width...