ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,558, issued on March 31, was assigned to JetZero Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.).
"Drag recovery scheme using boundary layer ingestion" was invented by Mark Allan Page (Orange, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are described herein for a drag recovery scheme using a boundary layer bypass duct system. In some examples, boundary layer air is routed around the intake of one or more of the engines and reintroduced aft of the engine fan in the nozzle duct in a mixer-ejector scheme. Mixer-ejectors mix the boundary layer flow to increase mass flow."
The patent was filed on April 4, 2024, under Application No. 18/626,491.
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