ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,039, issued on April 7, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Donauworth, Germany).
"Air directing arrangement for controlling airflow at an outlet" was invented by Alessandro D'Alascio (Munich) and Thomas Kneisch (Gernsbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air directing arrangement for controlling flow of air at a compartment outlet of a fuselage of a rotorcraft. The air directing arrangement comprises a continuous surface that covers the compartment outlet outside the fuselage and forms a flow channel for directing an air flow at the compartment outlet; a first flow-through opening that is formed at a first...