US Patent Issued to VENUS AEROSPACE on Feb. 3 for "Ignition and operation of liquid fuel powered rocket engine" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,590, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VENUS AEROSPACE CORP (Houston).

"Ignition and operation of liquid fuel powered rocket engine" was invented by Ali Moradi (Houston), William Thomas Ross (Houston), Vishal Doshi (Houston), Eric Wernimont (Houston) and Andrew Duggleby (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rocket engine configured to run on a liquid fuel and liquid hydrogen peroxide is started by impinging high pressure streams of a fuel and liquid H2O2 into a combustion chamber under pressure and temperature conditions sufficient to decompose the liquid H2O2 into hot water stream and oxidizer and achieve ignition."

The patent w...