US Patent Issued to Whisper Aero on Feb. 24 for "Uniform exhaust sheet and flow turning control" (Tennessee, Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,227, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Whisper Aero Inc. (Crossville, Tenn.).

"Uniform exhaust sheet and flow turning control" was invented by Mark Douglass Moore (Crossville, Tenn.), Ian Andreas Villa (Nashville, Tenn.), Devon Jedamski (Nashville, Tenn.), Andrew Stephen Hahn (Yorktown, Va.), Aaron Timothy Perry (Franklin, Tenn.), Jonathan Jeffrey Paravano (Brentwood, Tenn.) and Xiaofan Fei (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft may comprise propulsors. The propulsors may be integrated into an array of propulsors. An array of propulsors may be integrated in an airfoil of the aircraft. The aircraft may include a ...