US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Sept. 1 for "Engine nacelle inlet having a roughened turbulator surface" (South Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,792, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Engine nacelle inlet having a roughened turbulator surface" was invented by Jason Christopher Parsons (Summerville, S.C.), James William Kaminski (Charleston, S.C.), Jeffrey D. Crouch (Sammamish, Wash.), Rocco Tomasso (Seattle), Andrew David Clark (Mill Creek, Wash.) and Jeffrey Scott Harasha (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nacelle inlet that includes an inner flow surface and an outer flow surface. A turbulator surface is positioned along the inner flow surface and includes a roughened surface with the turbulator surface configured to tra...