US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND on Sept. 1 for "External cargo adapter for use with a rotorcraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,780, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Donauworth, Germany).

"External cargo adapter for use with a rotorcraft" was invented by Dominik Vogel (Langweid, Germany), Stephan Holze (Friedrichsdorf, Germany), Alexandru Dinca (Donauworth, Germany), Stefan Salzburger (Augsburg, Germany), Christoph Heider (Rain Am Lech, Germany), Lukas Bschorr (Amerdingen, Germany), Alfonso D'Avino (Augsburg, Germany) and Juergen Loi (Rain, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external cargo adapter for use with a rotorcraft that comprises at least one carrier station, in particular at least one weapon station, comp...