US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on Nov. 3 for "Robotic space station system for a modular surveying telescope" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,450, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Robotic space station system for a modular surveying telescope" was invented by Athip Thirupathi Raj (Tucson, Ariz.), Adrien Bouskela (Tucson, Ariz.) and Jekan Thangavelautham (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic space station system includes one or more interconnecting modules; a plurality of small satellites. Each small satellite further including: one or more docking adapters; and one or more telescopes; where: each of the plurality of small satellites is rotatably coupled to at least one of th...