US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA on Jan. 13 for "Deployable antenna reflectors array formed of multiple connected gores" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,723, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA (Washington).

"Deployable antenna reflectors array formed of multiple connected gores" was invented by Juan M. Fernandez (Norfolk, Va.), Andrew F. Paddock (Newport News, Va.) and Kevin DeMarco (Yorktown, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antenna reflectors having a diameter of 10 or more meters include dimensionally and thermally stable deformable composite reflective material that enables efficient packaging of solid surface segmented reflectors and a folding scheme and architecture that enables self-deployment to support S-...