ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,675, issued on April 7.
"Inflatable stabilized enclosure" was invented by J. Parr Wiegel (Pittsford, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable tent assembly cooperatively engages a bed of a pickup truck and includes a plurality of pneumatically separate zones that are sequentially inflated by a pump. The inflatable tent assembly includes a main cabin having inflatable side walls. The side walls are inflatable to transition from a collapsed configuration to a rigid and self-supporting inflated configuration. The inflatable tent assembly is constructed of a drop stitch material and is free standing independent of external struc...