ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,619, issued on May 20, was assigned to Lufthansa Technik AG (Hamburg, Germany).
"Method for applying an aerodynamically functional film" was invented by Oliver Oeser (Borstel-Hohenraden, Germany), Thorsten Gerber (Hamburg, Germany), Kai-Christoph Pfingsten (Hamburg, Germany), Dominik Brost (Hamburg, Germany), Darius Klein (Hamburg, Germany) and Holger Rathmann (Sehnde, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method applies aerodynamically functional film to a body around which complex flow occurs. The method includes: determining flow lines on a surface of the body for a predetermined surrounding flow state on a basis of a computer ...