US Patent Issued to Concepts NREC on May 20 for "Flow control structures for enhanced performance and turbomachines incorporating the same" (Maine Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,523, issued on May 20, was assigned to Concepts NREC LLC (White River Junction, Vt.).

"Flow control structures for enhanced performance and turbomachines incorporating the same" was invented by David Japikse (Woolwich, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flow control devices and structures for turbomachines. In some examples, the flow control devices and structures include various arrangements of flow guiding channels, partial height vanes, and other treatments located on one or both of a shroud and hub side of a turbomachine to redirect, guide, or otherwise influence portions of a turbomachine flow field to thereby improve the perf...