ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,852, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PIPL Ltd. (Limassol, Cyprus).
"Deployable symmetrical reflector antenna" was invented by Maxym Polyakov (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Elguja Medzmariashvili (Tbilisi, Georgia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployable reflector antenna is provided. An example antenna includes a deployable ring including a plurality of internal combined arms, a plurality of external combined arms, and a plurality of joints arranged circumferentially in a predetermined number of tiers from a bottom of the deployable ring to a top of the deployable ring. Each of the plurality of joints connects, in a scissor lin...