US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 8 for "Recovering wind power from remote vehicles" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,246, issued on July 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recovering wind power from remote vehicles" was invented by Soma Shekar Naganna (Bangalore, India), Abhishek Seth (Deoband, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for recovering power from remote vehicles near a landing surface. Air turbulence from a remote vehicle near a landing surface is detected and measured. When the air turbulence exceeds a threshold, a subset of landing surface components corresponding to sections of the landing surface with attached wind power generators ...