ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,554, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Environmental aspect control assembly" was invented by Sesinando P. Macaraeg (Everett, Wash.) and Frederick T. Calkins (Renton, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environmental aspect control assembly is configured to control one more environmental aspects. The environmental aspect control assembly may include at least one aspect-controlling portion formed of one or more environmental aspect-controlling materials, and at least one shape-changing actuator operatively connected to the aspect-controlling structure(s). The shape-changing actuator(s) is confi...