US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on March 3 for "Methods and systems for tank wall thermal insulation" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,968, issued on March 3, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Methods and systems for tank wall thermal insulation" was invented by Arash Ghabchi (Bothell, Wash.), Mark Francis Wagner (Glendale, Calif.), Artem Alexander Dyakonov (Seattle), Rachel Anne Clark (Seattle) and Gary D. Grayson (Maple Valley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and materials provide for thermal insulation for tanks, such as tanks for use in space flight missions. Microporous glass blocks may be used as an insulative bridge between spray-on foam insulation and a stainless steel wall of a tank, for example. Blocks of mi...