US Patent Issued to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 25 for "Space antenna having extendible hoop and interconnected cords defining polygons and related methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,571, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Space antenna having extendible hoop and interconnected cords defining polygons and related methods" was invented by Robert M. Taylor (Rockledge, Fla.), Christopher L. Rose (Palm Bay, Fla.), John Carro (Melbourne, Fla.), Richard I. Harless (Melbourne, Fla.), Miguel Ortega-Morales (Vero Beach, Fla.), Timothy L. Fetterman (Palm Bay, Fla.) and David Lopez (Malabar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A space antenna may include an extendible boom movable between stored and deployed positions. An extendible hoop may surround the extendible boom and is movabl...