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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2021
United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of Nasa, Washington, DC (US);
William R. Doggett, Poquoson, VA (US);
Brace W. White, Poquoson, VA (US);
John T. Dorsey, Yorktown, VA (US);
Julia E. Cline, Yorktown, VA (US);
David Kang, Mclean, VA (US);
Kyongchan Song, Poquoson, VA (US);
John E. Teter, Jr., Williamsburg, VA (US);
David A. Paddock, Toano, VA (US);
Iok M. Wong, Hampton, VA (US);
Rounak Mukhopadhyay, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Robert F. Martin, Hampton, VA (US);
Patrick A. Cosgrove, Hampton, VA (US);
B.Danette Allen, Norfolk, VA (US);
Walter J. Waltz, Williamsburg, VA (US);
Ralph A. Williams, Hampton, VA (US);
Sherif A. Shazly, Hampton, VA (US);
John R. Cooper, Yorktown, VA (US);
Matthew P. Vaughan, Hampton, VA (US);
James V. Plant, Norfolk, VA (US);
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for mapping a planar surface to a curved surface. One such method comprises providing a planar lattice pattern having identical regular polygon shapes which can be truss support modules for supporting a curved surface structure. Method further include determining respective positions of the nodal points of the identical polygon shapes by placing a starting nodal point on an axis of symmetry of the planar lattice pattern and iteratively positioning each nodal point in relation to already placed neighboring nodes to make a distance between a currently positioned nodal point optimally close with a set value of the planar lattice pattern. Method still further comprises forming a curved lattice pattern of the truss support module based on the positions of the nodal points of the identical polygon shapes.