US Patent Issued to Textron Aviation on Jan. 27 for "Passive, low-drag device for pylon-nacelle juncture flow separation mitigation" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,212, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Textron Aviation Inc. (Wichita, Kan.).

"Passive, low-drag device for pylon-nacelle juncture flow separation mitigation" was invented by Kelly Ray Laflin (Wichita, Kan.) and Mark Steven Chaffin (Andover, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft or aircraft body having an airframe structure, a pylon, a protrusion, and a nacelle. The airframe structure is a wing or a fuselage. The pylon has a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a first surface extending between the first end and the second end, and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first end is fixed to the airfra...