US Patent Issued to Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales on Sept. 23 for "Radiofrequency antenna for a satellite" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,758, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (Paris).

"Radiofrequency antenna for a satellite" was invented by Mehdi Sodki (Maureville, France) and Ornella Blanc (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiofrequency antenna is adapted to be mounted on a spacecraft. The radiofrequency antenna includes four helical strands of a super elastic shape memory alloy and is configured to move from a deployed configuration to a constrained stacking configuration and to return autonomously to the deployed configuration."

The patent was filed on Nov. 4, 2022, under Application No. 17/981,059.

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