US Patent Issued to RIC Enterprises on Sept. 15 for "Partially aerostatically supported ram air cushion ship" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,167, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RIC Enterprises (Bremerton, Wash.).

"Partially aerostatically supported ram air cushion ship" was invented by Mithra Sankrithi (Bremerton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a new class of transportation with a partially aerostatically supported ram air cushion ship (PASRACS) that can provide safe, fast, efficient global transport services with extraordinary comfort, luxury and amenities. The PASRACS employs inventive synergistic combinations of lift from aerostatic, aerodynamic, hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces for different modes of operation ranging from a stati...