ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,573, issued on Nov. 25.
"Airfoil with supersonic wave-tripping structure" was invented by Patrick O'Leary (Jacksonville, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wing structure for a supersonic aircraft including a pair of supersonic wave-tripping channels formed on each of two laterally extending wings of the supersonic aircraft, wherein each of the pair of supersonic wave-tripping channels extend in a span-wise direction of the wings respectively, wherein an upper supersonic wave-tripping channel of the pair of supersonic wave-tripping channels is disposed on an upper surface of each of the wings and a lower supersonic wave-tripping c...