ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,120, issued on March 25, was assigned to BAE Systems PLC (London).

"Arrangement for influencing liquid flow and a method" was invented by Weichao Shi (Glasgow, Great Britain), Mehmet Atlar (Glasgow, Great Britain), Callum Stark (Glasgow, Great Britain), Matthew Thompson (Barrow-in-Furness, Great Britain), Mortiz Troll (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Leon Malcolm Sweet (Barrow-in-Furness, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for influencing liquid flow comprises a first section selectively configurable to provide a vortex generator surface to induce vortices in the liquid flow. The arrangement further comprises a ...