ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,487, issued on April 22, was assigned to Top Greenhouses LTD. (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Tiln Projects LTD (Moshav Merhavia, Israel).
"Deployable and retractable cover" was invented by Asaf Elyahu (Ramat HaSharon, Israel), Alon Nahir (Moshav Merchavia, Israel) and Amiram Regev (Alon HaGalil, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover system comprises at least one cover sheet having four edges and a plurality of flexible rafters. Each of the rafters is slidably connected to at least one of two opposite edges of the four edges, and at least one roller is provided on at least one of two other opposite edges of the four edges, wherein...