US Patent Issued to VENUS AEROSPACE on Sept. 29 for "Rotating detonation engine for power generation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,691, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to VENUS AEROSPACE CORP (Houston).

"Rotating detonation engine for power generation" was invented by Andrew Thomas Duggleby (Friendswood, Texas) and Nicholas D. Cardwell (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generator system includes a turbine configured to be powered by a fluid flow including compressed air; one or more compressors configured to compress air; an eductor having (a) an air-augmented rotating detonation engine (RDE) as a component; and (b) a mixing section wherein an exhaust stream from the RDE and compressed air from the one or more compressors are mixed for pressure ga...