US Patent Issued to Tetrahedron Racing on March 25 for "Forward pushing sail" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,116, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tetrahedron Racing Inc. (Loveland, Colo.).

"Forward pushing sail" was invented by Edward VanDyne (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a forward propulsion system for a wind driven vehicle which includes one or more of a mast or a mast sleeve having a pliant sheet coupler capable of orientation at a mast front with a pliant sheet extending from the pliant sheet coupler over either a mast first side or a mast second side to a connection behind the mast to achieve configurations which move the force vector of the airflow acting on the pliant sheet fu...