US Patent Issued to AEROJET ROCKETDYNE on April 14 for "Warm gas thruster system with control valve that has a soft seal" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,312, issued on April 14, was assigned to AEROJET ROCKETDYNE INC. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Warm gas thruster system with control valve that has a soft seal" was invented by Matthew T. Jakubek (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thruster system includes a tank for holding liquid propellant, a catalyst bed connected with the tank and operable to decompose the liquid propellant and generate a gas, a plenum connected with the catalyst bed for receiving the gas, a heat exchanger connected with the plenum to cool the gas to a temperature below a threshold temperature and thereby generate a cooled gas, at least one thruster connected with ...