US Patent Issued to Venus Aerospace on April 22 for "Rocket engine systems with a supercritical coolant" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,627, issued on April 22, was assigned to Venus Aerospace Corp. (Houston).

"Rocket engine systems with a supercritical coolant" was invented by Andrew Thomas Duggleby (Friendswood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rocket engine system including a thrust chamber including walls that define an interior surface and a combustion section which is fluidically coupled to an output section. A coolant source containing a coolant. A means of heating the coolant. At least one port configured to apply the coolant to the interior surface to achieve a film cooling of the interior surface and wherein the coolant source is fluidically coupled to...