ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,247, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).
"Deployable electromagnetic waveguides" was invented by Sven Gunnar Bilen (State College, Pa.), Xin Ning (State College, Pa.) and Nikhil Ashok (State College, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a deployable and/or reconfigurable waveguide and waveguide-based components that can be configured to various states of length along a longitudinal axis such that the waveguide is an expandable structure. The waveguide can be expanded or unfolded to an expanded (or deployed) state, and the waveguide can be compressed or fold...