ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,295, issued on Feb. 10.
"Ion thruster and method for fabrication thereof" was invented by Qiulin Tan (Shanxi, China), Yongwei Zhang (Shanxi, China), Lei Zhang (Shanxi, China) and Wendong Zhang (Shanxi, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an ion thruster and a fabrication method thereof. The method for fabricating the ion thruster comprises: stacking and laminating a plurality of prefabricated ceramic chips (p) to form a front portion (51); stacking and laminating a plurality of prefabricated green ceramic chips (p) to form a rear portion (B); assembling the front portion (51) and the rear portion (B) and placing in a si...