US Patent Issued to Lufthansa Technik on April 1 for "Apparatus for attaching aerodynamically functional films and use thereof" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,939, issued on April 1, was assigned to Lufthansa Technik AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Apparatus for attaching aerodynamically functional films and use thereof" was invented by Oliver Oeser (Borstel-Hohenraden, Germany), Dirk Trottnow (Sahms, Germany), Andreas Flanschger (Graz, Austria) and Kai-Christoph Pfingsten (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is for attaching an aerodynamically functional film to a surface of a body around which flow passes. The apparatus includes: a self-adhesive, redetachable positioning film having positioning aids for the exact positioning of the positioning film on the surface of the ...