US Patent Issued to Air Shelters USA on Sept. 30 for "Airmast inflatable tower" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,867, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Air Shelters USA LLC (Hatboro, Pa.).

"Airmast inflatable tower" was invented by Willem VanBasten (Hatboro, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable equipment support tower having one or more inflation tubes and inflation valves and equipment mounted in a portable housing, and an equipment platform either mounted on a top of the inflation tubes or configured to move to any point on the inflation tube(s) after full inflation. The housing is configured to be compact and portable, preferably sized to fit inside the trunk or storage compartment of an emergency vehicle. Larger versions may ...