ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,421, issued on April 29, was assigned to Vorbeck Materials Corp. (Jessup, Md.).
"Communications tarpaulin" was invented by John Lettow (Washington, Md.), Sriram Manivannan (Elkridge, Md.), James A Turney (Silver Spring, Md.), Jennifer Pinkos (Hanover, Md.), Kate Redmond (Baltimore) and Dan Scheffer (Frederick, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to communications tarpaulins. In one embodiment, the communications tarpaulins include a textile layer, a plurality of antenna elements, and a communications hub. The communications hub includes a plurality of radio frequency ("RF") connectors. The co...