ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,486, issued on April 22, was assigned to Rigloo Ltd. (Biggar, Great Britain).
"Deployable shelter with inflatable frame" was invented by Iain Raymond Rodgers (Biggar, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployable shelter having an inflatable frame arrangement over which is disposed a flexible, the shelter having a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration, which in the deployed configuration the inflatable frame has at least two arched frame members, at least one elongate upper frame member linking together the arched members and two elongate side members, each linking the leg portions of the arched members, the el...