Patent 7967241 was granted and assigned to Aerion corporation on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Jet engine inlet structure of a supersonic aircraft comprising the structure having an inlet ramp and an cowl lip spaced outwardly of the ramp so that entering air flows between the ramp and lip, the lip and ramp configured to produce a first oblique shock that extends outwardly from a forward portion of the ramp to pass ahead of the lip, and a terminal shock that extends outwardly from a rearward portion of the ramp to one of the followingxo) a region just ahead of the lipxl) substantially to said lip.