ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,999, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY (Wuhan, China).
"Hydrofoil cavitating flow control structure" was invented by Zhongdong Qian (Wuhan, China), Shaofeng Zhang (Wuhan, China), Longjian Xue (Wuhan, China) and Zhiwei Guo (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrofoil cavitating flow control structure includes a hydrofoil. A primary protuberant stripe is disposed in a middle position of a suction side of the hydrofoil, a plurality of symmetrically-distributed secondary protuberant stripes are disposed obliquely at both sides of the primary protuberant stripe, and the plurality of secondary protuberant stripe...