ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,181, issued on April 29, was assigned to Marotta Controls Inc. (Montville, N.J.).
"Control surface deployment and actuation" was invented by Vito Michael Guardi (Staten Island, N.Y.), Travis James Spaulding (Verona, N.J.), John Edward Albright (Hackettstown, N.J.) and Brett Philip Seidman (Morganville, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for deployment and actuation of a control surface for a maneuverable object, including an actuation shaft arranged for rotation about a longitudinal axis of the device; an output gear arranged concentric with the actuation shaft and configured to unlock the control surface when rotated about ...