ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,627, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (Lod, Israel).
"Connection system" was invented by Baruch Behar (Lod, Israel) and Ziv Golan (Lod, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection system is provided for releasably connecting a first component and a second component in a first direction parallel to a reference longitudinal axis, including one or more locking devices and an actuator. Each locking device has a geometrically locked configuration and an unlocked configuration. In the geometrically locked configuration the locking device is capable of reversibly geometrically locking together the f...