ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,266, issued on Nov. 25.
"Rapid deploy mobile pedestrian bridge" was invented by James Christian Heim (Warwick, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus which includes an expandable lift device; and an expandable bridge span. The expandable lift device is configured to raise the expandable bridge span, while the expandable bridge span is in a compressed state and is substantially aligned with the expandable lift device. Next, the expandable bridge span is configured to rotate about ninety degrees with respect to the expandable lift device, while the expandable bridge span is in the compressed state; and thereafter the expandab...