US Patent Issued to Venus Aerospace on Feb. 24 for "Inlet bleed diversion through rotating detonation rocket engine" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,134, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Venus Aerospace Corp. (Houston).

"Inlet bleed diversion through rotating detonation rocket engine" was invented by William Thomas Ross (Houston) and Sibylle Frederike Walter (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rocket-based combined cycle propulsion system comprising an air inlet and a centerbody extending along a center axis. The centerbody at least partially defines the air inlet. The system further includes a first propulsion system (e.g., a rotating detonation rocket engine, RDRE) and a second propulsion system (e.g., a scramjet) coupled with the first propulsion system. The system fur...