US Patent Issued to Redwire Space on July 21 for "Foldable nested frame solar array system and method of manufacture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,325, issued on July 21, was assigned to Redwire Space Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Foldable nested frame solar array system and method of manufacture" was invented by Jeffrey A. Manson (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Quentin Williams (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Matthew LaPointe (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Michael C. Stinson (Goleta, Calif.) and Kenneth L. Steele (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that includes N populated frame assemblies (PFAs) having a folded nested state and an unfolded state. The N PFAs have a nesting height when in the folded nested state that is less than a sum of a height of all PFAs of th...