US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on June 9 for "Space vehicle imaging studio" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,589, issued on June 9, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Space vehicle imaging studio" was invented by Jonathan Glen Metts (Austin, Texas) and Alice Clare Watts (North Bend, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for high performance, professional-grade photography and filmmaking in a spacecraft during space flights are provided. The systems may include an imaging studio, which is a partially enclosed volume within a spacecraft. The imaging studio may enable photography during microgravity coast phases of space flight while allowing astronauts to tend to non-photographic activities. T...