US Patent Issued to FLEXITECH on Nov. 3 for "Boom deployer for in orbit deployment of satellite structures, antennas, and sensors" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,449, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FLEXITECH LLC (Orlando, Fla.).

"Boom deployer for in orbit deployment of satellite structures, antennas, and sensors" was invented by Kevin Jackson (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployer for storing and deploying a boom from a satellite, with antennas and sensors attached to the boom. The deployer includes a motor disposed within a drum and a motor shaft coupled to the drum for rotating the drum. The drum has a circular cross section and the boom, stowed in a stowed cross-sectional configuration, is wrapped around the drum with a first end of the boom attached to the drum. As th...