US Patent Issued to ASTROSCALE on Sept. 15 for "Docking structure" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,713, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ASTROSCALE LTD (Harwell, Great Britain).

"Docking structure" was invented by Sean Ainley (London), Rosemary Linehan (London), David Gentles (London), Neil Yarr (London), Gediz Hussein (London) and Yijun Xiao (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking structure for a satellite includes a magnetic plate and a housing for mounting and constraining the magnetic plate. The magnetic plate includes an outer face and an inner face. The magnetic plate includes a soft magnetic material. The housing extends around at least part of a perimeter of the magnetic plate, over at least part of the outer ...