US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Nov. 18 for "Under-constrained deployable systems and components therefor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,103, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Under-constrained deployable systems and components therefor" was invented by Jonathan Sauder (La Crescenta, Calif.), Nacer E. Chahat (Altadena, Calif.) and Juan M. Mejia-Ariza (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device can be configured as an under-constrained deployable system. Such a system can use under-constrained deployable couplers. A device may include a second segment coupled to the first segment by a high strain structure, wherein the high strain structure is bent to store deployment energy in a stowed configuratio...