US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 3 for "Reinforced fairing apparatus and method for hydrodynamic drag and vibration reduction" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,292, issued on March 3, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Reinforced fairing apparatus and method for hydrodynamic drag and vibration reduction" was invented by Stephen M Shepherd (Arlington, Va.) and Damien Bretall (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide a reinforced fairing apparatus and method for hydrodynamic drag and vibration reduction. Example embodiments provide a reinforced fairing apparatus comprising a tow cable, a plurality of ribbons, and a plurality of stiffening elements. According to example embodiments, the tow ca...