ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,153, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Roccor LLC (Longmont, Colo.).

"Rigid articulated batten integrated truss devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Thomas Jeffrey Harvey (Nederland, Colo.), Dana Turse (Broomfield, Colo.), William Francis (Lyons, Colo.) and Toby Harvey (Enoch, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deployable devices, systems, and methods are provided. Some embodiments include a system that may include: multiple frames configured to support multiple elements; multiple longerons; multiple diagonals coupled with the multiple longerons; and multiple battens. One or more battens may be coupled with at least one o...