ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,270, issued on March 4.
"Deployable tent provided with arches stressed in bending" was invented by Benjamin Lafoux (Passy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployable tent having a tent cloth, and a skeleton having at least one first arch provided with a first deformable elongate element and a second deformable elongate element that are arranged end-to-end by their first ends. The skeleton has a folded position and a deployed position, and in the deployed position, the distance between the second ends of the first and second deformable elongate elements of the first arch is less than the sum of the lengths of the first and sec...