The fold is named for its inventor, Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura.
[1] The crease patterns of the Miura fold form a tessellation of the surface by parallelograms.
The 1996 Space Flyer Unit deployed the 2D Array from a Miura folded configuration.
[7] The inflatable membrane structure of the SPROUT satellite is carried into space in the Miura-folded state, and then deployed using inflatable tubes themselves carried into space in the Octagon-folded state.
[8][9] Other potential applications of this fold include surgical devices such as stents and flat-foldable furniture.