US Patent Issued on Dec. 9 for "System and method for the improvement of attitude control system testbeds for small satellites" (British, American, Croatian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,015, issued on Dec. 9.

"System and method for the improvement of attitude control system testbeds for small satellites" was invented by Josip Loncar (Zagreb, Croatia), Bojan Igrec (London) and Dubravko Ivan Babic (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotational negative-inertia converter (RNIC) has a housing enclosing a flywheel configured to rotate around an axis of symmetry; a motor with a stator attached to the housing and a rotor attached to the flywheel to rotate it around the axis of symmetry; a housing angular accelerometer attached to said housing; a flywheel angular accelerometer; and a controller configured to r...