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It's interesting how similar this design is to a UAV propeller design that was created by MIT Lincoln Laboratory [1]. Not claiming that anything nefarious happe
by ubj 4y ago
It's interesting how similar this design is to a UAV propeller design that was created by MIT Lincoln Laboratory [1]. Not claiming that anything nefarious happened--it's just interesting how people often unknowingly converge on the same design.
(For the record, it looks like the MIT LL patent was filed in 2017 [2]--not sure how that compares with the patents in the article.)
[1]: https://news.mit.edu/2022/lincoln-laboratory-inventions-win-rd-100-awards-0921 https://news.mit.edu/2022/lincoln-laboratory-inventions-win-...
[2]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190135410A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190135410A1/en
- flybrand 4y agoQuiet could be a big driver. I advised a drone co w a contract to inspect off shore turbines and they did testing to show how quiet their product was so as not to disturb marine mammals. Also, we’ve been eFoiling a lot and it is so calm compared to being on the water in an ICE propelled craft!
- swrobel 4y agoHere’s an efoil builders discussion of this very prop design https://foil.zone/t/prop-design-share/5849/173 https://foil.zone/t/prop-design-share/5849/173
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoI wonder if the company in the article decided to focus on marine propellers because they could secure a patent specifically for marine use.