ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,606, issued on July 15, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Airfoil for an aircraft for superior supersonic aerodynamic performance" was invented by Naef Abduljalil Abdulrahman Qasem (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Zeyad M. Manaa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil for an aircraft having an airfoil geometry. The airfoil geometry includes an upper surface and a lower surface, the upper and lower surfaces are in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X and Y. The Cartesian coordinate values of X and Y are non-dimensional values from 0 to 1 convertible...