ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,442, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Vortex generator for a vehicle" was invented by Fernando Hiroshi Saito (Lake Orion, Mich.), Connor Dane Buckman (Waterford, Mich.) and Ljubomir Erakovic (Rochester, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body component includes an underbody panel having an underbody surface and a wheel well panel including a forward edge portion connected to the underbody panel. The wheel well panel includes an arcuate surface that extends from the underbody surface. An air deflector is arranged at the forward edge portion of the wheel well panel. A vortex...