US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA on April 22 for "Electrode design for lift augmentation and power generation of atmospheric entry vehicles during aerocapture and entry, descent, and landing maneuvers" (Virginia, Indiana, Washington, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,418, issued on April 22, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA (Washington).

"Electrode design for lift augmentation and power generation of atmospheric entry vehicles during aerocapture and entry, descent, and landing maneuvers" was invented by Robert W. Moses (Poquoson, Va.), Foy M. Cheatwood (Norfolk, Va.), Christopher O. Johnston (Yorktown, Va.), Sergey Macheret (West Lafayette, Ind.), Bernard Parent (Tucson, Ariz.) and Justin Little (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow control mechanism is described which substantially improves the existing process...