US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Sept. 15 for "Deployable canopy system" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,913, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Deployable canopy system" was invented by Joel Peavy (Poway, Calif.), Dexter Dickinson (Los Angeles), Robert J. Bristow (Shadow Hills, Calif.), Maeis Heshmati (Tujunga, Calif.), Bryan S. Tye (Santa Clarita, Calif.), Colleen Bristow (Shadow Hills, Calif.), Mar C. Ricketts (Portland, Ore.) and Trevor S. Blackann (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A canopy system includes a canopy, cables respectively connected to the canopy, and a plurality of columns spaced from one another. The columns include a canopy column and at least two cable colum...