ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,560, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to RTL MATERIALS LTD. (Lymington, Great Britain).
"Extendible mast with integrated transmission element" was invented by Matthew Howe (Lymington, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extendible mast (1) for deploying equipment comprises a composite member formed from plural fibre reinforced layers (75) laminated together in a matrix material in the form of a shell that is constructed and arranged so as to be configurable between a coiled form and an extended form. When extended the member is resiliently biased in the form of an elongate tube having a slit along its length formed by long...