US Patent Issued to Opterus Research and Development on July 8 for "Collapsible tubular mast (CTM) with surface material between trusses" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,346, issued on July 8, was assigned to Opterus Research and Development Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Collapsible tubular mast (CTM) with surface material between trusses" was invented by Thomas W. Murphey (Fort Collins, Colo.), Levi Nicholson (Wellington, Colo.), Michael Folkers (Fort Collins, Colo.), Erik Pranckh (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Kyle Egan (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deformable support apparatus includes a deformable body configured to transition between at least an extended state and a contracted state where a stiffness of the deformable body in the extended state is greater than a corresponding st...