US Patent Issued to LTAG SYSTEMS on March 31 for "Actively actuatable valves for aerostat buoyancy control" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,853, issued on March 31, was assigned to LTAG SYSTEMS LLC (Bow, N.H.).

"Actively actuatable valves for aerostat buoyancy control" was invented by Jonathan T. Slocum (Bow, N.H.) and Alexander H. Slocum (Bow, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, an aerostat may include an inflatable structure including a balloon and a neck collectively defining a volume, a valve including a funnel supportable in the neck and defining a first opening, a second opening, and a cavity therebetween, the cavity in fluid communication with the volume via the second opening, a stem defining a channel at least partially outside of the i...