US Patent Issued to Yanshan University on June 17 for "Hexagonal frustum deployable unit and deployable mechanism formed by the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,622, issued on June 17, was assigned to Yanshan University (Qinhuangdao, China).

"Hexagonal frustum deployable unit and deployable mechanism formed by the same" was invented by Bo Han (Qinhuangdao, China), Zhantu Yuan (Qinhuangdao, China), Yuan Jiang (Qinhuangdao, China), Yundou Xu (Qinhuangdao, China), Jiantao Yao (Qinhuangdao, China) and Yongsheng Zhao (Qinhuangdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a hexagonal frustum deployable unit and the deployable mechanism formed by the same, which includes hexagonal frustum deployable units, unit connecting rods and support frames, 3N2+3N+1 hexagonal frustu...