US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 22 for "Vortex generator, associated vortex generating system, aircraft and method of improving aerodynamic performances" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,737, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Vortex generator, associated vortex generating system, aircraft and method of improving aerodynamic performances" was invented by Dort Daandels (Hamburg, Germany), Alexander Burchard (Hamburg, Germany) and Michael Grewe (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vortex generator for an aircraft. The generator includes a base configured to be connected to an external surface of an aircraft, a baffle being connected to the base and moveable in rotation around a rotation axis relative to the base, and an actuator configured to move the baffle i...