US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on July 15 for "Blade tip vortex control" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,613, issued on July 15, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Blade tip vortex control" was invented by Subrata Roy (Gainesville, Fla.) and Sarthak Roy (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents systems, apparatuses, and methods of active flow controls for dissipating tip vortices. In this regard, a method comprises positioning one or more fan-shaped plasma actuators on an end surface of a tip of one or more airfoils of an aircraft, wherein the fan-shaped plasma actuators are surface compliant with the surface of the tip of the one or more airfoils;...