US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Feb. 18 for "Inflatable and deployable mast fairings for submarine sail systems" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,276, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Inflatable and deployable mast fairings for submarine sail systems" was invented by Paul V Cavallaro (Raynham, Mass.), Nicholas A Valm (Dartmouth, Mass.), Jacob D O'Donnell (Middletown, R.I.) and Michael P Smith (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable deployable mast fairing assembly is provided with a rigid foundation, a hydrodynamic fairing and at least one soft actuator. The hydrodynamic fairing is shaped to close an aperture formed between a deployable hardware system and a sail bay opening. A fir...