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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 07, 2016
Applicant:

Sunlight Aerospace Inc., Edison, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Allan James Bruce, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);

Michael Cyrus, Castle Road, CO (US);

Sergey Frolov, Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Sunlight Aerospace Inc., Edison, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/01 (2006.01); G02F 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/60 (2013.01); H04B 10/50 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/0131 (2013.01); G02F 1/0072 (2013.01); G02F 1/0121 (2013.01); H04B 10/501 (2013.01); H04B 10/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mobile system includes a self-supporting platform, a tunable reflective skin or film disposed on and secured to the mobile platform, one or more actuators and a controller. The tunable reflective skin or film includes one or more layers that are at least partially reflective to optical energy at one or more optical wavelengths. The skin or film is substantially flexible and/or stretchable and has an optical reflectivity to incident electromagnetic radiation of a given wavelength which is selectively variable when flexed and/or stretched. The actuators are able to flex and/or stretch the skin or film in response to receipt of a control signal. The controller generates the control signal based on a measured value of the optical reflectivity of the skin or film to the incident electromagnetic radiation of the given wavelength.


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