US Patent Issued to Joseph Oorebeek on July 21 for "Self-deploying aerodynamic system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,476, issued on July 21, was assigned to Joseph Oorebeek (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Self-deploying aerodynamic system" was invented by Joseph Mark Oorebeek (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arpan V. Rau (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bailey Kathleen Seamount Da Costa (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system configured to self-deploy an aerodynamic structure can include an outer container, load transfer components, the aerodynamic structure, and conversion devices. The outer container can have a standardized form factor and can store the aerodynamic structure therein and deploy the aerodynamic structure therefrom. The load transfe...