Communications: electrical – Miscellaneous
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-02
2011-08-02
Pope, Daryl (Department: 2612)
Communications: electrical
Miscellaneous
C340S384100, C340S425500
Reexamination Certificate
active
07990287
ABSTRACT:
Drag experienced by a vehicle travelling through an environmental media, such as air, is actively modulated by an energy beam which may either increase or decrease the drag. The energy beam may provide either a chemical, acoustic, or electromagnetic energy at a transition region between turbulent and laminar flow or at the leading edge of a laminar flow, or in the direction of a crosswind, in order to facilitate the respective increase or decrease in drag. An energy beam may be directed in a rearwards direction, relative to a direction of travel.
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Bianco Paul D.
Fleit Martin
Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco PL
P Tech, LLC.
Pope Daryl
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