US Patent Issued to Raytheon on March 4 for "Mechanism for securing then deploying a rotationally coupled rigid member to and from a frame via retention then release of tension in a curved member" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,727, issued on March 4, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Mechanism for securing then deploying a rotationally coupled rigid member to and from a frame via retention then release of tension in a curved member" was invented by Carl J. Wham (Vail, Ariz.) and Adora Estelle-Miriam Jackson (Oro Valley, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism secures and then deploys a rotationally coupled rigid member to and from a frame. One end of a curved member is pinned to the rigid member and the other end is on or in a reaction guiding element. In a closed state, the curved member is straightened from its originally manufactu...