US Patent Issued to AST & Science on Sept. 15 for "Thermal management system for structures in space" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,200, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AST & Science LLC (Midland, Texas).

"Thermal management system for structures in space" was invented by Ryan D. Honour (Midland, Texas), Javier Hernandez Bahlsen (Esplugues de LLobregart, Spain), Huiwen Yao (Potomac, Md.), Adam H. Halperin (Silver Spring, Md.) and Abel Avellan (Coral Gables, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna assembly has a solar layer having one or more solar cells generating solar power, an antenna layer connected to the solar layer and having electronic components utilizing the solar power generated by the solar layer, and a thermal dissipation device dissipati...