ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,036, issued on May 6, was assigned to PURUS POWER Corp. (Brampton, Canada).
"Vehicular wind turbine system for drag reduction" was invented by John Michael Kourtoff (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive vehicle drag reduction system including an airflow capture inlet, a flow consolidating conduit, an air driven rotor assembly, and one or more flow exhaust conduits. The airflow capture inlet defines an airflow capture inlet direction. The flow consolidating conduit is close sided. The air driven rotor assembly has a rotor assembly inlet and an air driven rotor. The rotor assembly inlet defines a rotor airflow inlet directi...