US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on March 17 for "Coordinated flow pipe elbow" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,972, issued on March 17, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Coordinated flow pipe elbow" was invented by Jonathan Allison (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pipe elbows having an improved interior configuration for more smoothly turning the flow of fluids through the pipe elbow are disclosed. The pipe elbows have an intermediate portion joined to inlet and outlet portions between the inlet and outlet portions. The interior cross-section of the intermediate portion is in the configuration of a closed figure which has a first region be...