US Patent Issued to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE S.A.U. on Sept. 16 for "Air to air active refueling system and method for generating aerodynamic radial loads at a hose-end" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,614, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE S.A.U. (Madrid).

"Air to air active refueling system and method for generating aerodynamic radial loads at a hose-end" was invented by Gonzalo Martin Gomez (Madrid) and Samuel De La Fuente Lopez (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compensating for aerodynamic radial loads applied to a drogue coupling of a hose and drogue air to air active refueling system including: deploying a refueling hose from a tanker aircraft, wherein the drogue coupling is at a distal end of the hose and the drogue coupling is connected to a hose end control unit which includes ...