US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Dec. 2 for "Surface-integrated electroaerodynamic thrusters" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,025, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Surface-integrated electroaerodynamic thrusters" was invented by Steven Barrett (Somerville, Mass.), Haofeng Xu (Boston), Arthur Brown (Cambridge, Mass.), Nicolas Gomez Vega (Cambridge, Mass.) and Nicholas Perovich (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to electroaerodynamic (EAD) thrusters for use in thrust generation. An EAD thruster may include one or more ion sources, one or more ion collectors, and one or more airfoils. In some embodiments, the one or more of the one or more ion sources a...