ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,607, issued on April 8, was assigned to Response Technologies LLC (Coventry, R.I.).
"Collapsible fuel cells for aircraft" was invented by David Allen Pettey (Portsmouth, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collapsible fuel cell for an aircraft includes an inner textile support substrate having an outer surface including one or more textile crease lines forming a fold pattern and an outer shell layer conforming to the outer surface of the textile support substrate to form the fuel cell. The fuel cell is collapsible along the fold pattern formed by the one or more textile crease lines."
The patent was filed on April 6, 2023, under A...