ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,517, issued on April 15, was assigned to LTAG SYSTEMS LLC (Bow, N.H.).
"Midair deployment of aerostats" was invented by Jonathan T. Slocum (Bow, N.H.) and Alexander H. Slocum (Bow, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a system for midair deployment of an aerostat may include an inflatable structure including a balloon at least partially defining a volume, a reaction vessel defining a chamber in fluid communication with the volume, a fuel package disposed in the chamber, the fuel package including a container and water-reactive aluminum, the container fluidically isolating the water-reactive aluminum from an env...