ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,024, issued on May 27, was assigned to AGNIKUL COSMOS PRIVATE Ltd. (Chennai, India).
"Manufacturing of a single piece rocket engine" was invented by Syed Peer Mohamed Shah Khadri (Tamil Nadu, India) and Srinath Ravichandran (Tamil Nadu, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a single piece, integrated, light weighted, cost-effective 3D printed engine for space vehicles. FIG. 5 illustrates an integrated engine that comprises a combustion chamber to burn the fuel, an injector plate (504) to inject the fuel to the combustion chamber, an igniter (502) to ignite the fuel mixture, a nozzle (506) to pass hot gas to produce...