US Patent Issued to THE AEROSPACE on Nov. 3 for "Self stiffening space materials" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,799, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to THE AEROSPACE Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Self stiffening space materials" was invented by Eric Joseph Nemanick (Santa Monica, Calif.), Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, Calif.), Alan R. Hopkins (Los Angeles) and Thomas A. Battista (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for stiffening space stiffening material on a structure in space includes deploying a structure located in a payload of a vehicle, wherein the structure is composed of the space stiffening material. The method also includes orienting the space stiffening material towards the ultraviolet (UV) light emanating from the sun i...