ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,632, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Pvilion Technologies LLC (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
"Self-deploying shelter" was invented by Colin Touhey (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Robert Lerner (Port Washington, N.Y.), Todd Dalland (New York) and Joseph Corsi (Phoenixville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-deploying shelter assembly deploys between a unfolded and folded state automatically. The shelter includes a plurality of legs and a hub, the hub being configured to be coupled to one end of a leg. A leg has a first element, a second element and a third element. A second end of the third element is movably coupled to the hub. A foot member is cou...