US Patent Issued on June 16 for "Rocket stage, a rocket and a gliding part" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,093, issued on June 16.

"Rocket stage, a rocket and a gliding part" was invented by Raimo Hirvinen (Hyvinkaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rocket stage having a frame is disclosed. The frame includes a nose part and a mid-section part. The frame is configured to separate into two or more gliding parts after the stage has fulfilled its main purpose. After separation, the gliding parts glide down to the ground. The gliding part comprises a section of the nose part and a section of the mid-section part and a flat gliding surface alongside the section of the mid-section part. The slope of the nose part of the gliding part is ...