US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on Sept. 15 for "Aerodynamic framework for parachute deployment from aerial vehicle" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,187, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Aerodynamic framework for parachute deployment from aerial vehicle" was invented by Guru P. Guruswamy (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining landing conditions of an aerial vehicle includes receiving an input model representing the aerial vehicle with an internally-stored parachute and pre-determined environmental conditions, initiating a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation for flight of the aerial vehicle in the pre-determined environmental co...