US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on May 13 for "Systems and methods for producing traveling waves along surfaces exposed to supersonic fluid flows" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,944, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Systems and methods for producing traveling waves along surfaces exposed to supersonic fluid flows" was invented by Iman Borazjani (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supersonic flow system in which a supersonic flow is encountered includes a surface configured to be exposed to a supersonic fluid flow, wherein the surface includes an upstream end and a downstream end opposite the upstream end, a wave generator coupled to the surface and including one or more actuators configured to selectably induce strain in the sur...