US Patent Issued to WindBorne Systems on Nov. 11 for "System and method for generating aerodynamic lift from wind shear at a system" (Romanian, American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,586, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to WindBorne Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for generating aerodynamic lift from wind shear at a system" was invented by Andrey Sushko (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joan Creus Costa (Redwood City, Calif.), Michal Adamkiewicz (Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland), John Lars Anderson Dean (Redwood City, Calif.), Kai Marshland (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Iosif-Oliver Szavuj (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: a balloon module; a sail module; a ballast module; and a bridle assembly. The balloon module includes an inflatable element containing a volume of lifting gas....