US Patent Issued to Eagle Technology on Feb. 3 for "Ejection of items using an inflatable device with rolling convolutions" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,043, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Eagle Technology LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Ejection of items using an inflatable device with rolling convolutions" was invented by Robert E. Hammerquist (Huntington, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an ejection mechanism includes an inflatable device with an inflatable object (e.g., a silicone impregnated or other airbag, etc.) that is folded back inwardly on itself into an interior space of the inflatable object (e.g., forming a convolution, etc.) to envelop an item for ejection from a tube. In order to eject the item, gas enters the inflatable device to facilitate expansion o...