ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,563, issued on July 14, was assigned to AGNIKUL COSMOS PRIVATE Ltd. (Chennai, India).
"Modular configuration of launch vehicle system" was invented by Syed Peer Mohamed Shah Khadri (Chennai, India) and Srinath Ravichandran (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a modular configuration of the launch vehicle system. More specifically, it relates to the modular configuration technology developed to optimise the launch vehicle with respect to the number of engines in the lower stage or the number of stages itself in order to get a most efficient launch possible for a particular payload being launc...