US Patent Issued to Continuum Dynamics on March 25 for "Method of configuring a wing-mounted turbine for generating electricity and increasing thrust" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,143, issued on March 25, was assigned to Continuum Dynamics Inc. (Ewing, N.J.).

"Method of configuring a wing-mounted turbine for generating electricity and increasing thrust" was invented by Glen R. Whitehouse (Skillman, N.J.) and Todd R. Quackenbush (Ringoes, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine mounted behind an aircraft wing provides a specified proportion of a propulsive force in the aircraft flight direction to an amount of power generated by the turbine when driven by the airflow trailing the wing. The turbine converts a portion of the otherwise wasted energy in the rotational vortices trailing the aircraft wing into...